Hard sand bed fix?

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About a year ago I had a dosing issue when I was new to dosing pumps and it caused a lot of precipitation in my sand bed. It’s been hard for a long time now and I want a normal sand bed again. What can I do to fix a hard sand bed?
 

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why did you put a reef in that
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Let’s change it all out for new, all at once. I have 200 jobs on file of this move

how many gallons

there are three or four reasons an all new bed is ideal vs mixing wastes around in the current one

our sandbed thread started because people wanted to move homes safely without losing their tanks. The same set of moves we use to change homes can be used to change your bed for new, easily. If it’s easy to do when relocating across town or another state, it’ll still be easy staying right where it is but getting the big swap.

there was once a time people recoiled in horror at the thought of touching a sandbed. Then practicality sets in, we get forced to move for once reason or another, and it turns out the worry was unfounded. It’s because we are able to move reefs successfully that changing out your bed for new would be rather easy in a few ordered steps
 
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Here’s one of 240 avail work links


we do jobs all at once, big jobs. His sand could have been removed altogether, changed for petsmart epoxy pebbles, changed to dolomite, changed to pool sand it will not matter. we either tap rinse your sand clean or we replace it. We do the number one thing 100% of people would select as a bad idea in a poll.
 
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we do jobs all at once, big jobs. His sand could have been removed altogether, changed for petsmart epoxy pebbles, changed to dolomite, changed to pool sand it will not matter. we either tap rinse your sand clean or we replace it. We do the number one thing 100% of people would select as a bad idea in a poll.
It’s a reefer 170, and I’m in Canada
 

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