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| View Poll Results: Do you vacuum your sandbed? | |||
| SSB: Yes every week when I do a AC/or when I do a WC |
   
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6 | 5.41% |
| SSB: Yes, but not all of it (can't reach it..or..<insert other excuse here>) |
  
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12 | 10.81% |
| SSB: Once in a while if I feel like it |
  
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18 | 16.22% |
| DSB: Are you kidding? I have a DSB! |
  
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13 | 11.71% |
DSB: Yes..but I'm a brave one...um "brave" is the right word...right? 
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2 | 1.80% |
| Never |
  
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43 | 38.74% |
| I run BB so this doesn't apply |
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17 | 15.32% |
| N/A due to some other reason |
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0 | 0% |
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#1
04-27-2008, 06:03 PM
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Nassarius snails, strawberry conch, tiger tail sea cumcumber keep my bed stirred and white. No need for me to do anything.
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#2
04-27-2008, 07:27 PM
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I have too much LR around the tank to vacuum the sand bed. My damsels do a good job at digging it up and leaving it in large piles.
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300 gal starphire custom built in pentagon reef (+90 gal sump on Blue Line 100 HD return pump, 210lb LR, Euro-Reef RC250 skimmer, 2x400W MH, 2x28W compacts, 2xTurbelle classic 4002 pumps & Turbelle Stream 6100 on 7095 Multicontroller, running ZEOvit) Livestock Fish: damsels; sailfin, yellow, regal & naso tangs; ocellaris & tomato clowns; lyretail anthias; foxface lo; flame angelfish corals: a few
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04-28-2008, 04:43 AM
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I have no need to . I have 2 auto vacs, a black and a tiger tail cuke.
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04-28-2008, 05:03 AM
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i have 2 sandsifting starts and a tiger tail cucumber and a ton of nassarius snails and i still vacuum out the sandbed every week with the water change. i do a third of it each time.
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#5
04-28-2008, 10:25 PM
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I have a sand bed that goes from zero depth to maybe 3" depending on where it gets moved to.
It used to get quite nastly looking, which forced me to vaccuum every now and then. Since adding the pair of Sleeper Gobies, my sand looks spiffy-clean all the time! No more vaccuuming... I now use that time blowing sand off the corals! Sigh...
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400 gal reef. Established April, 2007. 3 Sequence Dart, RM12-4 skimmer, 2 x OM4Ways, Yellow Tang, Maroon Clown (pair), Blonde Naso Tang, Vlamingi Tang, Foxface Rabbit, Unicorn Tang, 2 Pakistani Butterflies and a few coral gobies My Tank: http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=28436
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#6
04-30-2008, 02:04 PM
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Would stirring my sandbed cause an increase in nitrates?
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