Wow that was a depressing

Originally Posted by Beverly

Sounds like something that happened to a guy on RC. He moved his sandbed and folks there think it was the sulfate stirred up from the anaerobic part of the bed that caused the wipeout.

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I would say that from my experience, it was probably sulfate. How deep was your sandbed? Did it smell anything like roten eggs? Was the bottom of the sand bed muddy dark milky brown? Were there any grey/black areas of sand under the surface of the sand? Did you stir the sandbed down to the bottom, if so it could also be methane posioning if you had a deeper, organic loaded sandbed...