Do you vacuum your sand?????

[russ13]

Just wondering how many of you clean your sand bed when doing a water change???im doing it on my tank tonight cause I have a diamond goby that keeps kicking the fine dust around and I'm hoping to vacuum the real fine stuff out. I know many of you don't have sand beds (Gumbii) but that's just looks ugly.

 

[civicdemon]

I dont. I have plenty of nassariouse snails and dimond goby to keep my sand bed mixed over. Also about 4 conches

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[Greaser9999]

My sand bed is pretty thin so a conch snail does the trick for me

 

[solitude127]

I vacuum every w/c. I use a longer fresh water gravel cleaner. For fine sand, you'll need to control the flow so that the sand doesn't get sucked out.

 

[gumbii]

sand is for poor people....

 

[solitude127]

sand is for poor people....

that's why I have sand.

 

[Zoarder]

sand is for poor people....

I must be real poor to have 6" of sand

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[will21xl]

I'm not that poor with a 3inch sand bed.. Welfare is funding me so I can have more funds for expensive corals like fire and ice zoas..lol

 

[Chicane32]

I'm not that poor with a 3inch sand bed.. Welfare is funding me so I can have more funds for expensive corals like fire and ice zoas..lol

You mean, we are funding you and your nice Zoas.

 

[will21xl]

You mean, we are funding you and your nice Zoas.

Yes.. You guys need to fund me some more so I can buy more zoos in the future

 

[russ13]

I got some from the Obamasand program.

 

[Tangwich]

i purposely don't have a sand clean up crew or sand sifting fish because i have a feather duster garden that i don't want disturbed. so maybe once every couple of weeks, i rake my own sand bed and when i do, i see a great feeding response from my all my corals. my sand gets turnt up and over and my corals eat and me happy.

 

[will21xl]

I got some from the Obamasand program.

I need to enroll.. But I was to late this year.. Maybe they would have it open again by july

 

[Bouncingsoul393]

Absolutely, I recommend to always vacuum your sand bed. You won't believe that black **** that will come up and that accumulates. The only time, only, that you wouldn't want to do this is if you are cultivating and maintaining a true live DSB that's been seeded with various fauna.

 

[pandimus]

Nassarius snail's, conches, and diamond goby.. But the diamond goby is the real workhorse

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[sonnus]

I vacuum every w/c. I use a longer fresh water gravel cleaner. For fine sand, you'll need to control the flow so that the sand doesn't get sucked out.

"Be like Mike", sorry for dredging up the 90s.

Vacuuming a sand bed is just as important as vacuuming a bare-bottom tank. The only difference between the two is you can't see the detritus when it's hidden in sand. If you aren't vacuuming or cleaning the sand bed then it's the same as leaving a pile of detritus in a bare-bottom tank. I personally vacuum with every w/c just like Mike with a gravel filter! No matter how good your CUC is they can remove detritus. I don't get why reefers suck out clean water from their tanks for their w/c when you could be sucking out tons of crap from the sand bed.

Of course, don't vacuum deep sand beds (over 3"). That would be a disaster.

 

[jessesoto33]

thin sand bed and a sand sifter starfish