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09-17-2006, 07:59 PM
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What is wrong with sand?
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09-17-2006, 08:12 PM
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Over time sand seems to have a tendancy to collect a lot of detrious (sp). There have been a quite a few (long) threads on it on various boards. Once the sand reaches it's carrying capacity it has a tendency to crash or release all those toxins back into the tank. I am not sure on all the technical aspects of it I just know that my BB tanks appear to be heathier than my DSB tank.
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09-17-2006, 08:29 PM
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I've read a few of those threads. They seems to be the sandheads squaring off against the the bearbottomites. Nothing conclusive ever seems to come out of them.
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09-17-2006, 08:56 PM
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LOL. Nothing polarizes this hobby (affliction?) like like sand or lighting.
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09-17-2006, 09:06 PM
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HeHe or powerheads or skimmers or or or.......... It's funny. I think that lots of different things and methods work. I have my preferred and sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. I try to read and make informed decisions but then you go and look at someone's tank that does like 2 water changes a year - in a good year - and they have a beautiful tank while I am struggling with nitrates or heat or phosphate. Man go figure.
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09-18-2006, 12:13 AM
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Wrong. I keep track Andy. None of my barebottom customers have quit. We're talking the last two years here. I don't just whip random sh1t out of my a$$ and try to pass it off as fact.
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09-18-2006, 12:32 AM
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I don't see why you doubt me.
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09-18-2006, 01:51 AM
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Well thats good to hear Albert...... I'm with you Andy..... It's not the sandbed I think it's the learning curve once you get into this hobby. You drop a ton of $$ at a store where you hope there info is correct, and acording to them it is. You get home and set up.....now its time for the 17 trips back for odds and ends you forgot or dident know you needed(cant find it all). Then you relize what you have spent and if you have a wife YOUR DEAD...  Then you change and upgrade to beat the band....  my first tank twice over.... Then, all the leasons you learn the hard way witch cost you $$$$ Then the wife thing again......  If you are ever happy with your tank it just means that your planning to buy something BIGGER and BETTER....  If you get through all of that .......  And your still married.....  and still have a tankYou get to be one of us that have more than just a screw loose and love this hobby......... 6/10 will quite because they truly don't love the hobby....  P.S I don't just whip random sh1t out of my a$$ and try to pass it off as fact. LMAO
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