Pic request: Black sand in tanks

[qwuintus]

Thank you in advanced. :cool:

[qwuintus]

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[luceneck]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=4796591&sortby=replies&sortorder=descending

Top is a search, and bottom is a few of the links.


http://archive.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=463661&perpage=25&highlight=black&pagenumber=1

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=421983&highlight=black

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=482901&highlight=black

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=480701&highlight=black

[LiteEmUpGood]

Can you get Live black sand? If not how would you make it live?

[Ron Popeil]

live rock will seed your sandbed and make it "live". getting a handful of sand from an established reef tank and dispersing it in your sandbed will also make it "live".

[brads_reef]

I jumped on the bandwagon with black sand last year. I had it for a few months and dithed it. It is very hard to keep "clean". Live rock rubble and other things really show up on it. It looks great at first, but after a few months it isnt so hot.

[Red Reefet]

I went to black, but agree with bradsreef. It was always full of white stuff. So I added some of that indo pacific black (black & white mix). It looks much better and camoflauges all the crap that falls to the bottom. There are a few pics in my gallery you can see. The one titled 'new canopy" shows it with black only and you can see how much stuff gets on it. The more recent pics show it with the white.

[qwuintus]

thanks for the input guys.

[sulp]

A black sand bed (although I have never had one) is supposidly a nightmare to keep clean. Actually it doesn't get any dirtier than a light colored sand bed but the black makes every piece of deteris and any other junk stick out like a sore thumb. If it is not meticulously cleaned on a regular basis it will look like crap!

[LiteEmUpGood]

I..... Must....Try.....
because Im an addict

[burrito]

glass is a bit dirty and some of the polyps are closed cuz i just moved stuff around.

some coral shots first

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v666/penga25/1f8d671c.jpggreen zoos

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v666/penga25/12a4b22f.jpg green milipora? im not sure but all the polyps are out and flueresent green hairs. cant photograph it right though. :(

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v666/penga25/a73ed6df.jpg brown acro? again polyps are out and fuzzy whitish

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v666/penga25/647eff55.jpglittle pic of my baby xenia closed up and the ric next to it.

full tank
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v666/penga25/34447270.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v666/penga25/b4bae324.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v666/penga25/fa6084a1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v666/penga25/5af39f67.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v666/penga25/337f7141.jpgand cuz i thought this pic was cool.