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28 | 28.87% |
| Aragamax Select |
  
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50 | 51.55% |
| Larger |
  
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19 | 19.59% |
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#1
08-15-2012, 02:21 AM
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150DD mix reef with 90 gal sump and 40gal frag tank purple tang, sohal tang, yellow eye kole tang, fairy wrasse. cleaner wrasse, leopard wrasse, and misc fish. GHL Mitras 6200HV X 2, MP40 X 2, MP60 X 1, tunze 6095 X 2, Vertex RX6 calcium reactor, Bubble King SM250, Aquamaxx bio pellets reactor, Profilux 3 
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#2
08-15-2012, 02:53 AM
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I have sugar sand in one of my tanks. Worst mistake ever!! When my sand sifters do their job, blows around covering any corals close to bottom of tank. Just my 2cents
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#3
08-15-2012, 04:33 AM
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I used sugar sand and I'm SORRY. Sugar sand + one pair of clowns (that lift the sand)+ powerful powerheads = lots of sandstorms.
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08-15-2012, 05:27 AM
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I had/have 2-3" of sugar sand in my tanks....wouldn't have anything else
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08-15-2012, 05:43 AM
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Select or other larger sized sand. I hate sandstorms.
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08-25-2012, 12:07 AM
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Crushed Coral
I had to cover my medium grade sand with crushed coral to keep the sand staying on the bottom of the tank.
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09-02-2012, 11:38 PM
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Am still using sugar size sand in my high flow SPS system. The system is 110 galling long tank w/6 power head 4 evo 4 koralia + 2 tunze 6045 modified + 2 clown fish + 2 wrasse. Does it work yes! Would I do use sugar size sand again no. I used it because I like the look!*
I do get the occasional controlled sand storm, but it never seem to bother the SPS, I always have full polyp extension even with the sand storm.
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08-15-2012, 04:43 PM
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Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the root. 300DD - 140DD  TOTM Fall 2013 Last edited by Bblinks; 08-15-2012 at 04:45 PM.
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08-15-2012, 07:23 PM
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I like the look of sand, the owner of my last tank had 1" + Crushed coral in there without any problem but after I dumped some sugarfine in it started getting the stank spots. I think I might try a bag of seafloor grade in this setup before I upgrade to whatever my next setup is.
This tank started out with some sugar fine but with some of the flow i ended up with bare spots. I have sucked out most of the sugar fine leaving a shallow sand area over 1/3 - half the tank and a rubble zone in the other half. ZnP are in the rubble zone and I pull an occasional natural spreading frag out of there. I tried bare bottom in my frag tank and the bottom cracked.. although i do not believe the crack was related to the bare bottom, there was no rock-slide that i could see i just came downstairs and the tank was cracked.
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