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[Delphinus]

Ahhhh hahahahahahaha!! Stellar.

Actually those things remind me a little of a gravel vaccuum I used to clean my brother's 10g fish tank ... in 1977. (I was a lucky kid brother, getting to clean the poop out of that poor goldfish's home. I think he lived around 10 years and ate one of our cats until we finally gave him away to a vet's office where he promptly ate the receptionist. They haven't spoken to us since. The goldfish not my brother. I might be embellishing a little. About my brother that is, not the goldfish. That thing was a monster!) So anyhow, the idea isn't new but you don't see these things a lot so it kinda makes me wonder if they're not really the shizzle OR or the nizzle.

The nicest tank I ever saw with sand was something out of Holland and the guy was all Mr. Moneybags (well, in Dutch though, so it was probably more like Der Hoogen Guilderbaggen {with a heavy phlegmy accentuation on the Hoog, the Guild {pronounced HEELD}} .. ah crap, my tangential meter if off the chart - apparently I'm off topic. What I was trying to say was, the guy budgeted to replace his sand every 6 or 12 months or something like that.

I found since adding a tigertail, and a bunch of conchs though I've always had a more or less clean sandbed without replacement. But I've had to cleverly direct flow away from the bottom because it stirs up too much. One of the reasons I might stick with BB with my next tank is because of this, but, we'll see. Once I have rock in there I might have a change of heart.