nickmealey
Community Member
I'm fairly committed to two somewhat opposing things in my tank: high flow and sand. My primary goal in my tank is keeping SPS, but I just can't bring myself to go bare bottom - I just love the look of sand so much (plus I love wrasses). I have my pumps running high and inevitably there's a couple big bare patches where the sand gets blown around and opens up straight to the glass even with special grade.
But I'm just embracing it because I think there's some natural-looking remedies by adding some cut flat pieces of rock in these bare spots and then spreading crushed coral around and "easing" into the sand where the flow isn't so direct, any missing spots and the coralline should cover the glass just fine. I know a lot of people put encrusting montis on the bottom but again - sand just competes for this space pretty heavily. In the past I've been like "oh it's creating a bare spot better turn the pumps down". Not anymore. It's the dunes out here and no coral going to survive the sand storms so best glue them up on a rock.
Anyone else use this kind of sandy high flow strategy?
But I'm just embracing it because I think there's some natural-looking remedies by adding some cut flat pieces of rock in these bare spots and then spreading crushed coral around and "easing" into the sand where the flow isn't so direct, any missing spots and the coralline should cover the glass just fine. I know a lot of people put encrusting montis on the bottom but again - sand just competes for this space pretty heavily. In the past I've been like "oh it's creating a bare spot better turn the pumps down". Not anymore. It's the dunes out here and no coral going to survive the sand storms so best glue them up on a rock.
Anyone else use this kind of sandy high flow strategy?
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