It's too deep for my liking, but, I have to get my goby out of the sump and into the display and he'll rearrange the sand bed for me. It's what others reccomended for a 125 and according to the packaging is about right, but, once in the tank. 120lbs of fine sand is too much for a shallow or medium sand bed. I know the fine sand is a pain to work with especially now I have to move it around some, but wow, does it change the look of my tank. Got it fixed after work today, went out for a few hours and came back and the tank is looking gorgeous. I think the slime in the sand gumbed up the impellor in the skimmer. The skimmer had some issues this morning that I got going after work tonight. Just concerned if it is very fine particles that it could block gills or interfere with breathing of the fish or inverts. if they survived 12 hours without dieing in the cloud. It triggered some concern, but, it looks to be o.k. ![]() It just looks like when I overdosed Kalk and had a full tank meltdown. I saw some websites indicating it took up to 2-3 days in some cases for the cloud bomb to clear and although not many indicated if they had the "cloud" with livestock, there was a couple that said they had it with an established tank. So, I think it's just dust or calcium build up. But, he was swimming fine and looking o.k. He was lookin at me like what'd I do to his home. I was able to see my starry blenny this morning. One of my clowns must have been stressed from it. Well, tank is still cloudy, a lot of collection of stuff on the glass of the tank. But for now, I laid it across the front side of the tank. I plan to spread it out more when I can actually see it. I'm leaving the power heads, return, and skimmer running as nomral.Īnything else I should be concerned about? Provided the fish don't suffocate or anything. If it's just calcium precipitate then, I assume it's non-toxic to live stock and will dissipate over night or the next 24 hours. I'm assuming it's some type of calcium precipitate? The ingedients on the sand indicated Calcium, along with trace elements of other stuff. So, how long will the "white cloud" take to clear and is it toxic to live stock? Just swimming up to the glass probably because they can't see. Skimmer isn't going crazy and the clowns are the only fish I can see in the water, but they appear a little stressed but otherwise aren't breathing heavy. Now there's foam on the surface of the sump and tank and and the water is extremely cloudy. ![]() So, I added it to the existing tank with corals and fish. I had pulled the old one around a month or so ago. I added a new sand bed to my established 125g. When using aragonite for African cichlids or other freshwater applications note that a slight cloudiness may persist until the aquarium cycles due to high rates of calcium carbonate dissolution.O.k. With existing aquariums, rinse substrate as above and mix in small amounts into the established sand-bed over a period of several days. Wait until the water is clear enough to see the back of the aquarium and the chemical / pH / temperate are stable before adding fish and invertebrates. Any remaining cloudiness will disappear after a few hours of pump operation.įor best results when setting up a new aquarium, place rinsed sand into empty aquarium then carefully fill with water. ![]() Continue to rinse until overflow water turns from a milky to light cloudy appearance. Do not use soap or other cleaning agents. Oolitic Aragonite Sand is the ideal grain size for reef tanks, fish tanks, plenum systems and refugiums.ĭirections: Rinse well in a bucket using clean water. Combined with its near chemical purity, size consistency, and small grain structure, Bahamas aragonite possesses numerous advantages making it a superior source of calcium carbonate. It is tasteless, odorless, dustless and sustainable. The grains are OOLITIC (egg-shaped) and smooth. Bahamas sand is raw, naturally renewable oolitic aragonite sand that is up to 98% pure calcium carbonate. Protect the reef by using this superior and sustainable substrate. cm of surface area providing a huge space for housing ammonia, nitrate and nitrite reducing bacteriaĬalcium carbonate derived from oolitic aragonite is biogenic (created by living organisms) and naturally re-occurring.
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