Thinking of going BB. Need guidance please!

[Chad]

I have even heard from the bigest supporter of DSB, Dr Ron, that the deep sand bed is useless if you do not have a sufficently sized aquarium. I forget the exact size that was suggested, but I believe it was atleast 50+ gal. The reasoning was that anything smaller could not sustain enough life to make the DSB functional. It made sense to me.

So, I went from a 20gal with DSB to the 50gal BB. I cannot begin to tell you the crap that was built up in my 20gal. It was thoroughly disgusting. So if you want to keep a sandbed in smaller tanks, you should have a smaller sandbed with lots of vaccuming for ditritus during water changes.

Just my 2cents, 2nd hand knowledge :-D