bare bottom or sand bottom tank?

[ReDDeviLs]

what are the advantage and disadvantage for bare bottom and sand bottom tanks?

im currently using sand bottom tanks and my tunze will create sandstom at ttimes... other than that i will prefer sand bottom tanks as it looks nicer..

some comments please

[Kelmen]

my preference of sand bottom is DSB.

For your case, maybe try put up another layer of bigger grain of sand on top.

[Eric]

what are the advantage and disadvantage for bare bottom and sand bottom tanks?

im currently using sand bottom tanks and my tunze will create sandstom at ttimes... other than that i will prefer sand bottom tanks as it looks nicer..

some comments please

Tilted your tunze stream slightly upwards and filled up your bottom with corals. This will help in eliminating the sand storms.

Eric

[hotlemond]

Unless you are talking about DSB, a bare bottom lets you Tunze all the way without worries of sand storm. Its good too cause it keeps debris suspended and out of the tank thru overflow.

Of course it wont look so natural without the sand. If you are going full sps, then bare bottom is a better choice.

[zorden]

why not try GLASS BEADS...

http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/index.php?...&hl=glass+beads

[andysho]

Go for bare bottom LOl

no worries if your fish dead , it give you a chance

to remove it more easily

[RawKnMetaLNemO]

why not try GLASS BEADS...

http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/index.php?...&hl=glass+beads

im using fine marble sand LOL

[Gouldian]

Nothings beats the real mccoy for me, prefers sands unless going zeovit.

[loster]

Nothings beats the real mccoy for me, prefers sands unless going zeovit.

you are right bro if i run zeovit, i will go for bb. anyway, i still prefer sand i am using ssb

[dachkie]

i just bought the glass beads from pan abrasize size 03, the white is amazing, will be uploading pics tonite into my tank thread

[Haymaker]

definitely sand bottom for me, even if it means having a shallow sand bed. IMO it is not the corals nor the fish but how natural the whole tank looks that impress and soothes me.

[Jameshong]

i just bought the glass beads from pan abrasize size 03, the white is amazing, will be uploading pics tonite into my tank thread

Can't wait to see !

[raydiative]

i just bought the glass beads from pan abrasize size 03, the white is amazing, will be uploading pics tonite into my tank thread

bro... were you at t95 on friday? think i recognise the car of your avatar outside on the road.. hahaha

[gerald31]

to me BB is the way to go. I used to go for sand bottom but realised that after running a year or 2 later, maintaining it is a problem, esp when you overstock. which most of us do.And not to mentioned dead fished along the way. Now my routine is just 5% water change weekly and siphoning debris from the sandbed with eheim gravel cleaner

[dachkie]

bro... were you at t95 on friday? think i recognise the car of your avatar outside on the road.. hahaha

ya i recently went to t95 but i think was on mon or tues

[raydiative]

ya i recently went to t95 but i think was on mon or tues

yes yes.. monday... are you the one that commented on the nice big red zoas? the very sparse one...

[dachkie]

yes yes.. monday... are you the one that commented on the nice big red zoas? the very sparse one...

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haha ok i know who are you already, i was saying very sayang , the zoas so little on that rock to my gf right lol and u were beside me?

[dachkie]

check out how white the glass beads are, no clouding and best part is they are so easy to spread and they dont stick onto corals.

i have always hated it when my corals drop onto the sand bed and u see all the sand stuck all over the corals , i literaly buried alot of my corals when i was pouring 25kg of glass beads into the tank so all those corals on the bottom are covered , and i just took them out 1 by 1 , shake it a little and no bead stays on the coral rocks

[raydiative]

haha ok i know who are you already, i was saying very sayang , the zoas so little on that rock to my gf right lol and u were beside me?

haha... yeah yeah.. cos i felt the same way as you.. hahahaha... saw you got many stuff that day... how's the gems?

[Jameshong]

check out how white the glass beads are, no clouding and best part is they are so easy to spread and they dont stick onto corals.

i have always hated it when my corals drop onto the sand bed and u see all the sand stuck all over the corals , i literaly buried alot of my corals when i was pouring 25kg of glass beads into the tank so all those corals on the bottom are covered , and i just took them out 1 by 1 , shake it a little and no bead stays on the coral rocks

do it look natural?

[dachkie]

haha... yeah yeah.. cos i felt the same way as you.. hahahaha... saw you got many stuff that day... how's the gems?

all opening up , i only bought a few yumas and zoas, now i having zoas frenzy , now just looking out for the super exotic 1s

[dachkie]

do it look natural?

the only reason if it doesnt look natural is that it is too damn white, but it gives that super well maintain clean tank feeling

[dachkie]

i found out the disadvantage already , i have now develope a fetish for ultra white sandbed, saw a patch of detritus (fish poo) just now then immediately use my feeder syringe to suck and suck and clear it away haha

[nobody]

I like the cleanliness of bare bottom tank but don't like the unnatural looks. So I use a thin layer of coral chips which looks natural yet my tunze stream are able to circulate water all around it thus keeping detritus suspend until it goes into the overflow.

[sherman]

What is a feeder syringe ? Any picture to share?

Where can get ? and how much