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Old 04-07-2012, 05:26 AM
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the downsides are appearance.....some people dont like the "LFS" look.....another downer is you cant keep certain kinds of fish that sleep in the sand....
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Old 04-07-2012, 05:33 AM
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the downsides are appearance.....some people dont like the "LFS" look.....another downer is you cant keep certain kinds of fish that sleep in the sand....
+1 and you'll have to scrape the bottom to keep it clean looking.
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Old 04-07-2012, 01:34 PM
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You will lack a certain amount of zooplankton that settle and live and reproduce in the sand. And you will lack the biofilter that develop in the sand.

I was on the edge about removing the sand in my nano but before I put the sand my little blue legged hermit crab were always stuck upside down because they had no grip to move around on the glass, so I did put sand just so that they can move easily and the look is MUCH better too.
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Old 04-07-2012, 04:23 PM
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You will lack a certain amount of zooplankton that settle and live and reproduce in the sand. And you will lack the biofilter that develop in the sand.
This was my thought exactly. Though I am no where near educated in this hobby as others are. I was sure that there must have been biological benifits. My sand bed is 3" so it's not DSB but I have lots of wrasses and gobies that sleep in sand
Ive seen my fish bolt into the sand and would be worried that they may hurt themselves if it wasn't deep enough
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Old 04-07-2012, 04:28 PM
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The sand needs to be a properly maintained DSB in order to have any bio-filtering capabilities. There is definitely more zooplankton in tanks with sand though.
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The sand needs to be a properly maintained DSB in order to have any bio-filtering capabilities. There is definitely more zooplankton in tanks with sand though.
Mindy. What is properly maintained. Is it more than cuc
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Bare bottom and i LUV it...with a mosly sps reef the sand would be flying.And if some acro frag falls,it's not dying on the sand.
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Mindy. What is properly maintained. Is it more than cuc
you need a working DSB, which is pretty much impossable. we cannot sustain in our tanks what it keeps to properly maintain a DSB so you eventualy have problems.

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