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Old 01/10/2008, 04:18 PM
Shino74 Shino74 is offline
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Crushed Coral to Sand Bed

Ok, so some of you may or may not know I have been having problems with debris building up in my cc. I really want to change to sand so the million dollar questions are:-
How do I go about this?
What risks to Fish and Coral?
Is it easy?

Any help gladly received.
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Old 01/10/2008, 04:23 PM
Carlos Carlos is offline
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Debris buildup is due to low/bad circulation. Changing your sandbed will not fix that problem.

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Old 01/10/2008, 04:28 PM
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He seems to have about 30x flow in his tank.
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Old 01/10/2008, 04:33 PM
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Shino74 - I have that problem to. I have 2 parts CC to one part sand and I can figure out how to get better flow at the bottom. The sand is extremely fine sand which looks almost like dust and Im worried that if I increase the flow, its just going to kick up the sand and push things around that shouldn't be pushed around....Anyone have suggestions?
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