Wacky Wednesday!

[Wiskey]

KIA should be happy,.. I see the clowns!

Whiskey

[YLChik]

Originally Posted by fish.freak

lil trick i picked up, open attached file shift A (select all) shift c (copy) shift v( paste) lazy mans photobucket.

thanks FF

[YLChik]

Originally Posted by Wiskey

KIA should be happy,.. I see the clowns!

Whiskey

they are camera hogs!

[fish.freak]

Originally Posted by YLChik

thanks FF

[Hop]

What vacuum did you use?

[YLChik]

Originally Posted by Hop

What vacuum did you use?

I can't say the way I did this was smart... but I used a 3/4 id tube and siphioned it out. after my buckets were full I would put the water back in and do it again. I did this until almost all the sand was gone and then did a 25 gallon water change... it was all the water I had on hand.

I plan to do another 10 gallon change tommorow

and then my reg 5 gallon change on sat

thoughts

[Hop]

Originally Posted by YLChik

I can't say the way I did this was smart... but I used a 3/4 id tube and siphioned it out. after my buckets were full I would put the water back in and do it again. I did this until almost all the sand was gone and then did a 25 gallon water change... it was all the water I had on hand.

I plan to do another 10 gallon change tommorow

and then my reg 5 gallon change on sat

thoughts

Interesting. I may be right behind you in a month or so, but I'll be putting new sand back in I think using the dry sand that I put outside last January is releasing pO4 in my tank

[Wiskey]

Originally Posted by Hop

Interesting. I may be right behind you in a month or so, but I'll be putting new sand back in I think using the dry sand that I put outside last January is releasing pO4 in my tank

Yuck.

I'm trying something else new with my Nano,.. I've never been very sucessfull with araginite based sand,.. every nice tank I've ever had used cilica based sand and I'm not sure why I've never been able to pull off a nice tank with the type of sand everyone else seems to use.

Whiskey

[JY13131]

Amy that looks great!!

I love t he fuzzy sticks in front
they look happy

[JY13131]

I like the way black sand looks
Maybe I should have done that

[Hop]

Originally Posted by Wiskey

Yuck.

I'm trying something else new with my Nano,.. I've never been very sucessfull with araginite based sand,.. every nice tank I've ever had used cilica based sand and I'm not sure why I've never been able to pull off a nice tank with the type of sand everyone else seems to use.

Whiskey

Weird. My neighbor has some great white silica based sand and it looks great. Every silica base I've used is too yellow in my eyes, but I've never had it not work

[Wiskey]

Oh,.. and Amy,.. your not the only one sucking out sand,... due to my Tunze's mine is blasting everywhere,.. so I'm trying to go down to about a 1-2" sand bed in the back, and let it be bare where the flow hits.

I need to do it while the tank is still young, because I've ended up with piles of sand that are verging on DSB depth.

Whiskey

[JY13131]

Hey Amy
Is that "the" clam?

It looks good

[Wiskey]

Originally Posted by Hop

Weird. My neighbor has some great white silica based sand and it looks great. Every silica base I've used is too yellow in my eyes, but I've never had it not work

My theri is that the Araginite sand works as a PO4 suck in the begining and strips the water,.. I think that's why your supposed to wait before adding SPS in a standard DSB tank.

Whiskey

[Hop]

Originally Posted by Wiskey

My theri is that the Araginite sand works as a PO4 suck in the begining and strips the water,.. I think that's why your supposed to wait before adding SPS in a standard DSB tank.

Whiskey

I dunno... I've only had one real DSB... The rest have all been under 3". Right now I'm trying to find just plain dry sand and not that wet sand in a bag stuff for $45 shipped I may have to make a run to the big city in the next month and see if they have any there and avoid shipping.