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Hello! I got a new pistol shrimp last night, a candy stripe pistol shrimp. His name is Lazarus. I've seen Lazarus try to dig, but unfortunately, the digging doesn't seem to be working right. All the sand slides back down when he tries to take it out. He just manages to make a big cone. In...

Got this in and I messed up. I'm using all live sand and dont want to mix it. Would prefer local pick-up San Diego area. I paid $65.40 after using my $20 coupon. You can have it for $40 there is a hole in the bag as pictured I will tape that up, that is actually how it came, with the packing...

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I used my city water to clean my 80 pounds of sand (Caribsea grade sand) I know this is frowned apon. My water has chloramine in it and I used the city water to clean it, I drained the water out as much as I could and put the wet sand in my 90 gallon aquarium. There was very little water in the...

I just got a blenny to try and help with some algae Issues and I am wondering if the sand has too much shell/rocks for the blenny. last week I took about about 1/4 of the old sand but I did not shift through the old shells and rocks. Should I do something for the bottom of the tank?

Added salt 12hrs ago and its starting to clear up when will it be a good time for me to add the sand ?

Can cabbage coral be kept on the substrate? Will the tissue be irritated? I rarely see any sand covering it and it seems happy but for the bottom half touching the sand. It never seems to as fully extend. Should I prop the rock it’s on up off the sand?

Hi First time here setting up a 75 gal mixed-reef. I am getting ready to set up and cycle the aquarium and want to know if I can use a wet sand (Caribsea AragAlive) sand with my initial cycle plan using dry-rock and a Microbacter Dry Rock Bacteria Starter Kit - Brightwell Aquatics. Will this...

Video link - https://photos.app.goo.gl/3CzxWx1eNGEQtwDfA So I bought a new condo in Ft Lauderdale and inherited a mature marine aquarium. Which is great, because I always wanted one anyway, and am glad I don't need to set one up from scratch. I have a lot of experience with Freshwater tanks of...

Hi everyone! I just bought some CaribSea Arag-Alive reef live sand today, used what I needed, and have 11 pounds left. It’s the coarser Reef Sand size, and it’s available for $15 if anyone needs it. It’s fully submerged in the water that was in the bag originally, and still includes the...

Hello fellow saltines, I'm looking for some suggestions regarding my pistol shrimp moving sand around. Firstly, I knew these little guys were busy beavers when I got him so that's not my query. My pistol and I do this daily dance where he moves most of the sand from one side of the tank to the...

I’ve got a 200 gallon peninsula build I’m planning to transfer my existing Reefer 350 into. The BRS videos sold me on Caribsea Ocean Direct sand as I wasn’t a super fan of my current sand and I liked the idea of hopefully bringing in the bacteria from the direct ocean sand. Unfortunately, the...

For brain coral, do you need to add a frag base before placing it on the sand? Or just place it directly on the sand

Hello fellow saltines, I started up my 5g tank almost a month ago with CaribSea Fiji Pink live sand. Over the past year I have been researching how all of the different elements of a reef tank interact with each other and how they affect tank parameters. One of the things I read is that some of...

i’m getting a 75 gallon custom made. i really like sps tanks but everyone says less sand or no sand because it’s easier to clean. but at the same time i’m considering jawfish which need sand and i really like more "biology" in the tank. the scape will also be quite minimalist. how can i...

Hello, I have a diamond goby and he doing really well sifting through all the sand and keeping it nice and clean. However when he sifts he kicks loads of small sand particles into the water column due to the high flow. When the particles are floating around in the water column it doesn’t seem to...

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Hi, I am upgrading my tank from 85gal DP tank to 135 DP tank. I have my tank over 4 years. I am wonder if I can move my old sand from existing tank to new tank? I know most people said using new sand but sand are expensive. I am wonder if I can use old sand and add some additional new dry sand...

I want to get a leopard wrasse and I wanted to add some more sand to my tank to give it plenty of space to burrow. Would adding more sand to my reef tank mess anything up?

I’m upgrading my tank from a 37g to an 85g system my 37g hasn’t been running for long I started with black sand per recommendation at a lfs. However now that I have this new tank I was looking at sand options and I’m seeing a lot of hate on black sand and how it’s known for messing with water...

How do you go about cleaning the glass below the sand bed? I have always been told “don’t disturb your sand bed, it could wreak havoc on your system”. Well, I have seen some darn good FTS that most definitely do not have this nasty build up between the sand and the glass that I have! I just set...

I’ve been trying to find anything on if I can keep the same sand substrate that was in my 5 gal freshwater tank and convert it into a saltwater tank. It’s cheap sand, Top Fin Premium Aquarium sand, but it’s something I have now which I wouldn’t have to buy if not needed. Any advice would be cool.

My main display tank is experiencing orangish looking sand only when the lights are on. The tank has been running for almost a year now and the sand has been getting darker and darker orange. The sand that’s in the tank is Fiji pink and it was a bright white but now it’s no longer white but the...

I have a couple questions about replacing my sand in my tank. Currently my tank’s sand bed is about 1.5” deep. After a year+ and many algae and diatoms breakouts, it has become very discolored. I have the parameters under control now to prevent those from happening again, but I’m wanting to...

Hi all, about to upgrade from a 55 gallon to a 120. Tank has only been cycled for two months and is stocked with two clowns, a Kole tang, two shrimp and a hermit. Would it be safe to transfer my existing sand or do I need all new sand?