Stiring of sandbed - rescaping of LR

[hamannbmw]

Hi ,

I thought of rescaping my LR. however, after hearing from someone in LCK saying it will restart the cycling process, i had to keep it as it is now.

My tank is already few months old, therefore wouldn't want to take the risk.

Anyway, is it true that the cycling process will restart ????

[hammerhd]

not really. i did it last month. juz dont try to stir the sea bed up

[hamannbmw]

i may wan to stir the sandbed cos theres lots of diatom n some cyano.... look ugly, so how ? can i stir it

[FuEl]

Hmmm...you wun have to restart the cycling as your bacteria would still be alive. Few days ago I added livesand into my tank. Did not have enough saltwater to wash the sand properly. In the end ended up with a milky tank.

After 1 night the water cleared up already.

[hamannbmw]

ok... means i can disturb the sandbed during rescaping...

[chrislwp]

Why not add fine sand over it so it won't stir up the sandbed and also cover all the unsightly cyano or diatom.

[hamannbmw]

Why not add fine sand over it so it won't stir up the sandbed and also cover all the unsightly cyano or diatom.

yep... tats a good idea, but i lazy to wash the new sand lar...

[chrislwp]

yep... tats a good idea, but i lazy to wash the new sand lar...

Lazy to wash sand? That should not happen being a passion reefer.

I did that. Initially mine 3" sandbed for 1mth, later added another 4" to it, also rescape the LRs.

But wash you sand thoroughly. No matter how careful you add, your water will be mess. Just prey that your fish can take the stress.

[hamannbmw]

DO u think 5kg is enough , cos mine is a 2 X 1 X 1...

[alanseah]

well fish/LS wont be affectmuch with the cloudy due to adding sand.. as this is part of their nature life in sea...

washing sand is because u need to wash always dust that is not sand but is collected on the shippment.

[chrislwp]

For that amount of sand & size of tank, should add in ½".

I thought urs is a big tank, so advise u to add sand over it. Such nano tank is easy. Just take out and rescape loh. Adding sand will help u with a clean sandbed temporary soultion only.

Your main contributor of cyano is high phosphate and nitrate.

[hamannbmw]

My nitrate reading is below 12.5 and as for phosphate i'm not too sure. I do a 25% water change every week. Nitrate doen't seem to go to 0 reading.. probably becos i do not have a sump and i'm using a canister.....,

anyone using canister having this problem