Adding sand...
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Bifferwine
I am a girl
Air touching your sand won't hurt. And what you propose to do is perfectly fine.
SSalty
Team Liquid Force
The easiest way is to take a scrap peice of 3" PVC pipe and use a funnel at the end sticking out of the tank and than put the sand in the pipe and let it slide the sand to the bottom.
Piggy
Reef enthusiast
If it's live sand I use a soda bottle. I cut off the bottom. fill it up. Slowly put in tank,. Lower to where I want the sand to drop and unscrew lid. Sand falls into place.
yote
In Memoriam
All 3 methods work great.
kevinsimons
Reefing newb
At the risk of repeating myself - I had a catastrophe (my first, and so far only) caused by adding live sand to an established tank. All my vertebrates died within 2 weeks of adding about 2 cups of the stuff to the established sand bed... my lesson learned was - add "dead" sand when you need to...
Piggy
Reef enthusiast
I added a bag of LS and didn't have any problem. All mine survived. You sure it was the sand?
kevinsimons
Reefing newb
Piggy, not 100% sure it was the sand - but the die-off happened within days of the introduction of the sand - starting with the fish that lived in the sand - and moved up until all the fish were gone. My instincts tell me it was the sand (nothing else checked out - and it was the only change made). We thought it might be stray current, but it wasn't...
yote
In Memoriam
I'll bet there was something in that sand Kevin.We never really know whats in the bag for sure.
JustinStone87
Reefing newb
Someone was telling me about cleaning the live sand before you place it but i thought about it and wouldnt that defeat the purpose?
Piggy
Reef enthusiast
Yep if you clean/wash live sand it kills all the good stuff. You do wash it if it's not LS.
