Bare/sand

[Fourevrloud]

Bare bottom or sand pros and cons ?

 

[piranhapat]

It depends on what you like. Easy to maintain or clean. What kind of fish can play a roll. Some wrasse prefer sand. Maybe a SPS tank favors more a bare bottom. But not necessary. Plus or negative either way you can be successful. You will get mixed reviews. It's just a matter of opinion. So if you like the look without sand. Do it. If you like sand than you can make it deep or just enough to cover bottom.

 

[will424]

Bare: its easier to clean, plus you can increase the flow, more effective for the skimmer to take out gunk and also allows coralline to grow on the bottom!

 

[Fourevrloud]

Good points I don't have much sps. I do like that it's easier to clean
Thanks for the input.its something to think about before I do my upgrade

 

[Mark...]

Many don't like the bare look, so I think a minimal sand might be a good way to go.

 

[Aquadicted]

it depends on what you like. Easy to maintain or clean. What kind of fish can play a roll. Some wrasse prefer sand. Maybe a sps tank favors more a bare bottom. But not necessary. Plus or negative either way you can be successful. You will get mixed reviews. It's just a matter of opinion. So if you like the look without sand. Do it. If you like sand than you can make it deep or just enough to cover bottom.

+1

 

[SantaMonica]

If sand, beware of over 3" deep.

If bare, consider a zoa-garden covering it

 

[reefiness]

bare bottom is fugly. theres nothing natural looking about it imo. But like its been said before, its all a personal preference, they each have their + and -

 

[vio]

Most of the ppl. have problem to control PO4, sand grain size is the question ? if is to big , will accumulate all the Detritus fast, if is to fine, you got sand all over, i consider sand a Luxury, need to be blow of Detritus all the time, then if you got nice Aqua scope and room around is fine. I run BB for many years, easy maint. i prefer to watch healthy and nice corals then watch the sand.

 

[homegrowncichlid]

bare bottom (or with a single layer of crushed coral, simply because I get messy with cleaning the glass and the sand gets into the magnet scrubbing the glass and I get scratches, no matter how carefully I tried to avoid it. I keep a DSB in the sump/refugium and am currently mounting ricordies to the bare bottom of the main tank.

 

[Fourevrloud]

Yea I'm heading more towards a bare bottom

 

[gpscuba]

I prefer bare back but that's an other forum

 

[ValorG]

Bare!