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2017年10月8日 · I hold it my the flex tube and pinch and release to control the flow and let the sand fall back down. Also like smaller tubing to not have to take out a ton of water. If it's the first time you are doing it after a while don't try to do it all in …
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2016年12月27日 · Need input on the "best" sand sifters out there. Was looking at a cucumber for a while, but am fearful of toxins and fish loss, although they seem very efficient. Thoughts? I've had nassarius snails in the past, but looking for an alternative. I've …
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2013年2月9日 · If you have a 1" hose, you can most definitely get the sand out, which is what I used. I first tried to use the hose from the Python I use to clean my sandbed, and it wasn't large enough; I needed to go with a large hose with higher flow rate to suck up the weight of the sand.
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2022年1月30日 · I use Python syphon also (just the manual one) and vacuum roughly half of my sand bed every water change (every 2 weeks) -- let the sand suck up but not all the way,,, kink the hose to stop flow and let sand fall back down,,, unkink hose to suck up the cloudiness and gunk still suspended within the tube.
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2019年12月29日 · My tank is officially one year old now. The past week or so my sand has been getting some brown spots on it, almost like diatoms. I can brush it way with a turkey baster, and everything looks fine till a few days later. What should I …
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2021年10月10日 · as you can see in the 5x work examples there, read em all, the sand will be fixed and the rocks will be fixed. if the tank is large and this will take a lot of work, ouch/large tankers headaches. still the best fix, you don't want to process and recirculate all that mass in the system you want it all instantly gone and the effort goes into growback prevention, in the zero …
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2010年7月20日 · Crushed Coral or gravel you can easily stir and use but sand is dangerous. My setups cost way more to me than 3 bags plus of sand. To lose any fish or coral over sand seems silly. Now don't get me wrong if u have the time to fully clean and dry sand prior to new setup be my guest but typically in an upgrade situation you don't have that time ...
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2017年3月30日 · I prefer the CaribSea Seaflor Special Grade Reef Sand. It's very nice mix of 1 -2 mm size and is still great for sand sifters or fish and inverts who burrow. It stays down really nice compared to lots of others. I had used the Figi Pink which is a more fine sand from .5 -1.5mm and it blew around a ton.
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2014年8月20日 · Also you might unleash some fouling zones within as thick sand beds. I would do it in 3 .. 4 ‘stripes’ starting from one side of the tank. The following week you can continue with the next stripe and so on. Another idea to get rid of crusted sand particles and anyhow a good idea is to use a cleaning crew. Sand dollars. Digging sea stars.
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2017年2月17日 · "Aragonite Sand" is the grade... but they leave that part out in the chart. Essentially Aragonite Sand is the standard Reefflakes... which is 3mm. Aragasnow - 0.5mm Tonga Special Pink - 0.8mm Miniflakes - 2.0mm Mesoflakes - 2.7mm Reefflakes - 3.0mm Reefflakes Grand Select - 4.5mm