Which do you prefer? bare bottom, shallow sand bed, or deep sand bed?

Which do you prefer, bare bottom, shallow sand bed, or deep sand bed? Please explain why

I like shallow looks good and easy to keep clean


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BB because my corals love it lmao

I like shallow sand helps buffer pH and I like to keep wrasses and gobies. White sand also helps reflect more light back up to the undersides of corals

Why does a shallow send bed help buffer ph as apposed to a deeper one?

Shallow sand even though BB my corals were way better

BB because my sand bed seems to be the culprit behind my rising phosphates.

I'm going to try BB with my new tank. With a tray of sand in the back for some wrasses. I may end up adding a thin layer later, not sure.

I like deep sand bed with egg crate on the bottom (black), because i can built my aquascape easier. If my rocks get tips over it
than more likely it won't break the bottom glass panel!

Shallow sand bed for me. I went from fine to reef grade, much better IMO.

Shallow sand bed for the wrasses and gobies. Was thinking about a bare bottom, but do not know what to do about the wrasses. I do not want to put a tray of sand in the back.

i know [MENTION=2546]gumbii[/MENTION] likes it deep. im a bare bottom guy

i bet this post won't get deleted like my post... noah is on a roll...

I like the way a shallow sand bed looks over a bb or dsb

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BB so you can see all the crap that gets collect if you have sand. But man the coraline sucks tho

Almost anymore you need to qualify deep or shallow sand bed. First I like a sand bed because it's more natural and most if not all fish will graze on it. I think you should have enough not to see the bottom because to me it looks odd seeing the bottom and like you didn't plan your set up. The purpose of an aquarium is to replicate the living conditions of the inhabitants. Yet to have seen a glass bottom ocean. I usually have about a four inch sand bed even though in some places it may only be an inch deep due to someone making it's home which is natural which then makes an area a little deeper. I like fish that inhabit the bottom, the middle, and the top of the tank. You might think, Well duh! Well duh.... Some live in the sand during the day and some at night like all the Wrasses you guys seem to love.

You all laugh at the person with castle or bridge in their tank because it........ "doesn't look natural".

If you have problems maintaining a complete system you need to fix the problem. I don't think having sand is the problem.

A problem may be is today no one puts rock in their tanks which is a huge factor in filtration. So they possibly blame the sand for their problems. I love rock in my tanks, watching the fish cruise in and out of it and hopefully new things popping up. And as much as I can fit in my sump.

I add my rock before sand hopefully securing the structure so when someone moves in under an area it doesn't collapse. And having the notion that bacteria in the rock as well as other micro living organisms make their way to the bottom via the rock helping aid any biological mechanism.

i love the coraline