stupid sand wont stop moving!!!

[kien]

I've never run a wavebox so I can't answer that.. but I do have another suggestion. Try placing small rubble, shells or a higher grain sand just under the powerheads where the piles area. They should be heavy enough to prevent piling up, and there should be enough flow (suction) to pull detrtius out of the rubble so that it doesn't sit. Might have to play around with how large of an area of rubble/shells/high grain sand that you'll need.

[sitandwatch]

I have the same sand and its very fine stuff.

I now have a tank that have some areas that are bare bottom and some with sand.

I tried placing some rubble around the areas that the sand was disappearing from but then I just had rubble and no sand.

Mind you I only have about 12inch's of water and my power heads are right in the middle level wize.

[Milad]

sitandwatch we must unite and find a solution to this annoying problem!!

ill try kien rubble trick when i get back from my trip to prince George.

[lastlight]

what about glue/sand bottom. then sprinkly some loose sand on top to blow where it wants to?

[mike31154]

Your system is still relatively new correct? If so, give it some time, after a while as more bacteria & other stuff colonize all parts of the system, including sand, it should stay in place a little better. When I first started up my tank I was a little obsessive about having the substrate 'just so'. No powerhead issues, but I soon found that various critters, Maroon clownfish for one, would rearrange it to their liking, not mine. I now live with whatever the system decides to do with the substrate, as long as there's no sandstorm, which there is not.