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Old 05-05-2014, 03:13 AM
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Default Sand vs no sand?

I am in the process of setting up a new FOWLR tank. Dims are 72x24x27.

I am curious on everyone's thoughts on sand vs. bare bottom? I have seen lots of bare bottoms recently.

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Old 05-05-2014, 05:44 AM
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My thought is that I have never seen a bare bottom ocean. Or sea for that matter. Or lake even. Or river.
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Old 05-05-2014, 05:58 AM
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My thought is that I have never seen a bare bottom ocean. Or sea for that matter. Or lake even. Or river.
Lmao I vote sand two you can't have wrass without sand
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Old 05-05-2014, 07:35 AM
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Lmao I vote sand two you can't have wrass without sand
There are many wrasse that don't need sand beds , including all Cirrhilabrus (fairy wrasse) , and even the wrasse that do sleep in the sand for example halichoeres family ,can adapt without a sandbed from what I have read and also heard from other reefers who have kept them in bare bottom tanks.
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Old 05-05-2014, 09:35 AM
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My thought is that I have never seen a bare bottom ocean. Or sea for that matter. Or lake even. Or river.
I've never seen a river or ocean.. or a lake or a sea contained by five glass panels :P
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Old 05-05-2014, 01:17 PM
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6line for years with BB but can't keep the shrimp/goby pair
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BB here , loving it

If I were to do a fish only though I'd prob go sand but reef and I'm BB
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I've never seen a river or ocean.. or a lake or a sea contained by five glass panels :P
You've obviously never seen my tank then.
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Old 05-05-2014, 02:32 PM
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You have sand if you like the look of sand. What other people think shouldn't matter.

But since you asked. Having a bare bottom is very liberating There's no way I'd have the flow patterns that I have in my tank with sand.
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I have very little sand in my tank in the front, Lots of flow so it blows around a lot . But the back part of my tank is bare bottom and I like that I do not have to get into those hard to reach spots to maintain it. I have a large rainbow wrasse that dug himself in at night in his previous tank, but because of my small sandbed just hides in a rock at night now, happy as can be.
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