Possibly, but I don't know if that would be a key consideration when deciding whether or not to go with a sand bed.
Perhaps what one would really be wanting to look at is that the sand is a moderate filtration bonus versus an added variable to cause problems. Personally I think in a 46 gal I would go with a bit of sand for aesthetic reasons.
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Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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