Live Sand

[Reefres]

Hey Everyone. I'm presently taking down a 110 gal. (5 yrs. old) and starting a new 120 gal. tank. I will be using the same LR but should I use the same LS or start new? Also any reccommendation on type of LS would be great. Thanks.

 

[AshS]

Hi Reefres,
Seems a shame to waste the mature sand but depends on the purpose of the new sand bed. Are you going for a deep sand bed? Is the old sand aragonite?

 

[psiico]

I've heard of people having trouble doing that if the old sanbed was a DSB. Disturbing all that gunk in the lower layers poisoned their tanks.

 

[Reefres]

Thanks for the replies. The old sand bed is approxmately 2" and is not aragonite. I purchased it from LFS.

My fear is that if I disturb it and move it to the new tank I will contaminate the new tank. Any one else have experiance moving established LS bed to a new tank? Thanks.

 

[DougBak]

I moved the sandbed from my 75 to a new 90. I got probably 75% of it, trashing the rest of it since it was mostly foul smelling junk. Since I was moving it all in one day, I let the sandbed settle before adding all the inhabitants back. It only took a few hours, with some additional sponges for soaking up everything floating thru the water column. I had to rinse those a few times, but it cleaned up nicely!

 

[Anonymous]

just curious to why a 120 from 110...theres only a ten gallon dif (obviously)? Just a new tank?

 

[Reefres]

I know it sounds strange changing from a 110 to a 120 but it wasn't about the gallons as much as the dimensions. I wanted more depth and would have gone with a larger tank but I'm limited to a 48" length where I can set it up.

 

[Anonymous]

more volume vs surface area gotcha...