Anything I should keep in mind for first naner?

[swplimited]

Just the surface so extra food and poop doesn't build up

[sushi]

Ok, a poop sucker. Thank you.

Did any of you use wet sand from the beach in your tank?

[crabbysd]

NOOOO. "Live sand" youll use is argonite, crushed coral like your live rock. its a BIG part of your biological filter. buy it new.


http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-0...ture/index.htm

[swplimited]

+1 spend the cash and buy live sand Petmountain.com sells substraite for about $20-$25 for 20 lbs, best deal I have found and it's a good brand, caribsea is what I use

[Supermoto]

Best thing I did for my nano is fork out the cash for good lighting and good rock.


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[sushi]

NOOOO. "Live sand" youll use is argonite, crushed coral like your live rock. its a BIG part of your biological filter. buy it new.


http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-0...ture/index.htm

That is a great article, I just finished reading it. Ok, so if I went and scooped sand from the beach here, the grain size would not have enough variation to support a healthy mix of sedimentary creatures. All the sand around here looks pretty much exactly one size (at each beach).

So if I buy the good live sand will it already have all the worms and such that are mentioned in this article? Or just bacteria and I need to find the worms and other cleaning animals elsewhere?

Theoretically, if I wanted to make a tank that replicated the beach at La Jolla, then could I use sand from there? I don't want to do this, I am just wondering.

Thank you for the article, now I see the importance of varied grain sizes and the role the sediment plays in the tank.

[leonel619]

When you buy live sand, it will have the necessary bacteria to kick start your live sand bed. Worms and other bigger critters will come in as hitchhikers on live rock or maybe corals attached to pieces of rock.

[sushi]

When you buy live sand, it will have the necessary bacteria to kick start your live sand bed. Worms and other bigger critters will come in as hitchhikers on live rock or maybe corals attached to pieces of rock.

Alright, thank you. Maybe the fish store would give me a scoop of wormy sand if I bought some live rock.

When people have big arches or tall live rock shapes in their tank are those glued together or do they find pieces of rock that are that shape?

[leonel619]

You can use reef safe epoxy. Or some people I know drill the rock and use acrylic rods to hold them in place.

[crabbysd]

Beach Sand is mineral. Mostly silica and doesn't work the same as argonite. Beach sand also comes with lost a trash. Some human some not. The beaches here are temperate. Cold water. Reefs are tropical warm water. Temperature animals don't generally do well in high temps. Don't mix oceans as the saying goes.