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Introduction It has long been a dream of mine to build a larger tank (like no doubt many of us) since I started keeping marine fish a century ago (approximately). After putting it off for far too long, I have finally decided to go all in on a new dream build! As with many things I set my mind...

I'm almost ready for water, all I need to do is figure out my electrical situation with my outlets. I've set up all of my rock, but when should I add my sand? I currently have my live sand in bags waiting to be added to the tank. Should I add the sand right before the water or is it ok to add it...

I'm upgrading to a larger tank. Bought an established 250 gallon reef off of someone. I wanted to replace the sand bed since his is over a year old. My current reef tank has a really white find sand, I want something similar maybe not as fine but I have no idea what it is since someone else...

I'm trying to finish the planning on my new tank upgrade. I'd like to have some sand dwelling wrasse as well as a diamond goby to sift sand and keep it clean. I'm also planning on having a fair amount of water movement generated by powerheads in the tank for my mixed reef so don't want to...

I have 140 lbs of new dry sand for sale. Still in the shipping boxes I received the sand in. I would prefer pickup or I can meet you. $100.00 for all no shipping included in price.

Has anyone had any luck (long/short term) with creating a false bottom out of epoxy/sand to reap the benefits of bare bottom while maintaining the look of sand?

My new reefer 750xxl is arriving in two days and I have been considering the idea of adding an ABS sheet to the bottom of the glass to help keep it from cracking or scratching from the rocks. Is this necessary if I'm using sand as well? I know BRS has an ABS liner on their 160 but I'm not sure...

Ok - I know this is probably a very old topic and most will say "toss the old sand and buy new sand". I'm temporarily breaking down a tank with around 50 lbs of beautiful and relatively clean mesoflakes sand. As I'm removing the sand I'm rinsing some detritus out, and using some of it in my...

If you are new to the hobby or you want to learn a little more about choosing the right substrate for your aquarium then take a look at this article from guest contributor, Robert Woods. http://aquanerd.com/2018/09/how-to-pick-the-right-substrate-for-your-marine-aquarium.html

I'm replacing my current 4 year old sand bed with a larger sized grain. I've removed half. It's about 2 gal of sand. If you want it let me know. If you want to pay for it even better. I'm planning on replacing the other half next week, Tuesday 09/18. It's wet sand. I switched over to the...

So I currently have a uniclife w-25 in my 75g reef tank. 48x18x24. It literally blows sand opposite it in the tank away down to the glass. I feel that where there should be low flow spots everything is way high flow. And this is at the lowest setting! My corals and feather dusters look like...

Only if you’ve done it .... how bad is it to use dry pink Fiji without rinsing ? It’s cold here in nj and I really don’t feel like doing it

So my last tank is officially taken down and out of commission. I essentially shut it down and never broke it down, because I was tired of dealing with ich. I’m now attempting to do this with as much thought and thoroughness as I can. To prevent any losses in the new tank I’m setting up. I’m...

So I'm currently taking over a tank from a friend. Using all of his live rock and some water but decided to use new sand. The sand too longer than expected to arrive. When it got here, I realized it was LIVE sand when I wanted dry sand so that I could wash it. He's dropping off everything today...

Hey all, My coraline algae that was once purpleish, is now bleaching white or a faded grey. I'm assuming it's my lighting because parts that have less light are still purple. Behind my anemone when it shrinks up, the coraline is still purple behind it. It started with white spots taking...

At school in Aquatic Science we are setting up 12 tanks for different projects. One of them is to study a cat shark egg from hatching in a 55 gallon........ I know, I know. My question is should we consider sand and rocks in there or just leave it bare bottom? When the study is over in a few...

Hi, Planning to setup my aquarium and thought that I put a sand wallpaper below the tank. In case I wanted to remove the sand for whatever reason and go with bare bottom so at least I will have something below the tank looks nice a bit. Ayes and nays? Your thoughts are always apprecaited as...

Hello, I'll be setting up my first tank and I need help picking a substrate. I have caribsea fiji pink and special grade in mind but I really dont know what is best. I will have two jabeo pp4's and my return pump does 400-800 gph. I will mainly have LPS and softies with maybe a couple SPS. I...

Do you have to use live sand? or can it be just a regular substrate? Thanks in advance

I have live sand in all 3 DTs. I need to provide some "variety" for a few fish and so I've gotten some fine sand that is for SW and made a few piles of it. They like it. But I would like to add 2 other things but I'm not sure if it's ok. 1. I bought a canister of shell pieces. It appears to be...

Aquarium is 41" x 24" x 24". I will be purchasing from Marco Rock and would like some help with what I will need form them. What sizes, shape, weight with key largo, prime cuts, etc. To give me plenty of styles to choose from for my aquascape? Do I need rods or can I just glue them together...

I just lost my Mandarin Dragonet and am looking for another sand-dweller with some cool mannerisms. I used to have a diamond watchman goby, but it jumped out of the temp tank when I was moving houses. I've tried other diamond watchman's in my old 120g, but they would always disappear and then...

Greetings! So I am fairly new to salt water aquaria -- I kept a planted freshwater for a few years -- and things are going pretty well so far. A short time ago though I discovered a few new "guests" in my tank. They look to be small tendrils/worms encased in sand tubes, which based on a bit...

how do you keep your sand bed look clean. I feel like after a day or two after a water change my sand looks like it did before I cleaned it. any tips or anything would be appreciated.

Hey guys I wonder why there is green algae on my sand bed!? There is a little growing on the back of my tank but it is mostly on my sand.. is there anything that can actually eat that? or any way to remove it? here is a picture