Sand bed

[albert_dao]

Hold your horses folks, let's take into consideration a few facts here and their relevance to these articles:

a. These were temporary, short term installations. Hardly set up for stability. They were not cycled properly and the actual equipment selection was unrealistic. Did anyone else notice the lack of massive flow, skimmers, cured live rock, etc?

b. The fundamentals of reef keeping are quality equipments, a good knowledge base, and routine maintanance. These procedures allow one to keep up with the dynamics of reef chemistry, organic cycles.

c. Sandbeds/plenums are a nightmare for maintanance. That's pretty self explanatory. Long-term results on properly set up (equipment, cycling, stocking, etc) BB tanks are numerically superior to those of DSB/plenum orientated strategies, IME.

For real guys, look at those experiments. Who in here has a tank that even remotely resembles those tanks (either in appearance or mechanics)?

*cough cough*