That's kinda what I assumed, no such thing as a stupid question right? Haha okay have a batch of water brewing as we speak will do it tomorrow. Can i leave it bare, and remove it all the. Add sand after? Rather remove it all then replace rather then trying to do it in pieces. It's pretty thick in some spots hope my rocks have enough filtration, only 5 small fish in thete


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Ya, you can remove all of it at once. Just to be safe, I'd have spare water made up for a few days later and check NH3, but I've done this without needing to do anything else. As long as you have a good amount of rock, you have enough filtration.

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Okay so I removed most of the sand, going to have to move some rock work to get the rest of the sand out (excuse to re scape it?), should I worry about it? Or just the thick parts? There is still some sand very very thin tho. It's been 2-3 hours and everyone seams to be okay except my torch but it's never open after a water change. Also on a side note my skimmer is doing some wet skimming, so that's good. What parameters should I keep my eye on? Nh3?


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Ya, no harm in checking ammonia in a day or two. I expect it will be fine. If the rest of the sand is just a thin layer around rocks, I'd point a power head it it and let it blow into a corner. Unless the thin layer is 3 inches thick :)

In the back it's like maybe 1 1/2 2 inches but not more then that I couldn't get anything behind my rocks until I move them, still a little work to do it that means re scape! Fish might not be happy with a bare tank for a while but I'll leave a few hiding places. I have a rock wall on the back of my tank and my ricks piled Infront of it so it's hard to get at the stuff in the caves/ back.


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So far everything is good, going to remove the Rock and the scape then add sand this afternoon if everything works out! No ammonia spikes at all and everyone and everything is very happy


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Get one of those SeaChem Ammonia Alerts and hang it in your sump. I keep one in there and one in my QT. They last a year. I use a Jiffy to write the month on it and replace them once a year. For $8 each, it's pretty good insurance. :D

So update, everyone is doing great in the tank, torch isn't still fully open. But that's not worrying me to much. But my ppb is 56 guess that's some improvement?


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