Sand Beds

[Gottcha]

Always a popular question

Deep sandbed

Shallow sandebed

No Sandbed

[gman0526]

Guess what I voted :D .

[tdevil]

i voted bare bottom or no sand bed, this is what is best for my tank ;)

Jay

[icereefer]

Ditto's I voted BB to same here works best for me too, the only thing I miss about my DSB is the buffer benefits.

[Doctor_Reef]

Hmmmmmmmm..... If sand is the choice then it is No for me!!!!

[geneq]

Great observation Doc. I too voted "no" for that reason. Sand...Coral's a different story.

[specsgirl]

BB for me too!

[Imaexpat2]

Guess Im the Lone Stranger...I voted shallow sand beds. I like the BB concept and it eases maintenance for sure but it just looks too sterile until the coralline has covered the bottom and "waiting" aint one of my better qualities...in fact its not a quality at all!

[jjdude19]

Guess Im the Lone Stranger...I voted shallow sand beds.

I'm with ya on that one. I personally like the look of sand to a BB.

[Krazy K]

Deep Sandbed Here :)

[Mako8500]

DEEP SAND FOR ME !!! i will give others a shot when i get a chance.:character0053:

[Stresco]

I have a bottom dweller in my tank that needs sand. So I always keep sand in there.

[jmw21]

Guess Im the Lone Stranger...I voted shallow sand beds. I like the BB concept and it eases maintenance for sure but it just looks too sterile until the coralline has covered the bottom and "waiting" aint one of my better qualities...in fact its not a quality at all!

I 100% agree i don't like the coralline all over the bottom i like the shallow beds too.

[icereefer]

yeah I never thought I'd say this because I've always been a sand man myself, but some times you have to take the good with the bad, since I went BB,my parameters pretty much stay right were I want them, I always had very low traces of nitrates and phosephates but they were there, BB I have 0readings because I can control my debris,and my clean up crew doesn't have to be as big so in terms I have even less waste of those animals in my tank when I up grade to a bigger tank I get no spikes because I don't have to worry about my sand bed being stirred up and disrupting it.
I use a poly board on the bottom of my BB and coraline is a pretty easy clean up.
but I do have to use a calcium reactor to help buffer my calcium and such.

[Salt_King18]

shallow for sure. ;]

[CoralAdict]

Deep here as well. I have went crushed coral , no ugfilter. Went c/coral w ugf. and even a 125 dsb at each end, and c/coral w/ugf in center. And my easiest most stable cleanest looking is a dsb.

[Toyota Guy]

1" -2" sandbed for me...... I like the look alot better than BB.

Just my .02

Chris

[scotia-reefer]

I prefer a shallow bed. BB's are nice but not natural looking in my opinion.

[skaustin]

2" sand bed here

[Tony A.]

Like the looks of sand, but I've had better luck keeping an sps system (acros in particular) with a BB (actually, white starboard bottom).

With enough coral growing in there, no need to focus your eyes on the bottom!


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[Gimis66]

I love the deep sandbed! Granted I've only had my tanks 13 mos, no problems yet. I also like the looks.

[crny11216]

I started out thinking I wanted to plan purely a frag tank, no sand, just eggcrate, flow and light optimization. Then I found that I liked the neat look and interesting creatures and processes and 'look' that could be created (or rather that you can't control a DSB) using a DSB.

I decided to go 'halvsies'. The LR is arranged on top of the bed as if it were all rubble (instead of being stacked on top of each other in a pile it is placed independantly, no stack/touching). I like seeing random worm holes, weird colors on the sand,etc.

[Toyota Guy]

looks like shallow sand beds are the choice.......