Adding a sand bed at a later time.....

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by Slick Fork

Just adding another vote for doing a small amount at a time via a pipe that reaches all the way to the bottom!

+whatever number we're at

[lastlight]

New sand well rinsed should do nothing really. It's not alive at all and shouldn't really have anything on it to rot.

If you cycled sand in another tank and then moved it the sand itself would have die-off all over it from being moved and create problems I think.

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by sphelps

+whatever number we're at

whatever number we're at++;

[kien]

I just recently replaced the sand bed in my tank. Scooped out all the old sand and dumped in new sand (carefully of course). I've done this in the past too without any issues (and will likely continue to replace my sand every couple of years or so) aside from a short lived diatom bloom.

[NIVLEM09]

I've just added sand to my already cycled tank 12 days ago and i haven't seen any negative effects on my critters/tank.just rinse the sand good before dumping it in...