Jack,
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How do I go about putting in the sand??
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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Veeery carefully.. ;) :D
Seriously tho.
How I went about this in two other tanks was by doing the following.
</font><ul type="square">[*]<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Drain some water out of the tank. Make a rough estimation on how much water the sand will displace. Use the sand bed calc on RC to see how deep your sand bed will be. remove less H2O than this and hold it in a container for now. </font>[*]<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Get a large diameter piece of PVC that is taller than the depth of your tank. 2" or larger. </font>[*]<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Make some sort of large funnel that the end of it will fit inside the PVC tubing. </font>[*]<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">place the tube in your tank. Slowly pour sand into the funnel. Fill the tube as much as possible. </font>[*]<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">
SLOWLY raise the tube up out of your tank allowing the sand to flow out. DO this very slowly. if you go too fast you will turn your tank into a huge milkshake. </font>[*]<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Repeat until done.
</font>[/list:u:bcb29ce070]<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You are going to get lots of sand raised into the water column, but not as much as if you poured it in directly.
It will settle.. honest. run some quick filters on Ph's if you can. with filter floss. change regularly. another trick you can do is take some ph's and send the outlet deep under the sandbed. Look at this picture for an idea of how to set it up.
[ 29 March 2002, 18:11: Message edited by: DJ88 ]