Thread: advice to help prevent a cycle in a tank move
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Old 03-20-2011, 04:57 PM
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Like BWA stated if you have to reuse the sand THOUROUGHLY clean the sand. I have done this a couple time's with about 30 lbs of sand, it takes a long time to do it properly. I used a large fish net and only did 2 cups at a time under very hot water.
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