starting new tank... nano

[DalamaR]

ok i started my new tank yesterday, but just one question, i used a new sand bed for this, the name is caribsea Aragonite, but since the grains are really small, as soon as i move anything water is no longer clear,
-when ill add fishes will this cause any problems??
-should i try to rinse it more...?

TIA guys
Mark

 

[Anonymous]

Welcome to Reefs.org Mark.

Give it a few days and the cloudiness should settle. - This is a real common thing for the finer grained "sands".. - Probably worse with sandbeds made up of "southdown" which is what many people seek to use for deep sand beds.

You should be ok with fish, but I would really hold off for a few weeks to let things settle and start up.

Are you using live rock and are you planning a reef or a fish-only tank?

 

[DalamaR]

in fact im planning to make a fowl, and maybe 1 or 2 coral( sumthin like shrooms) i will have 80w of light... should be enough...???
maybe a clown or 2...

 

[Brian5000]

I have that stuff (0.5-2mm grain). I put salt water in my new tank would be cloudy for up to a day. Once things came alive, all that fine stuff clumped up, and now, even if I move stuff and stir up sand, it's only a little and it settles within 15 minutes.

Buy some live rock and do the cycle thing; by the time that's done, I'm sure you'll be fine for fish.

How much light you need kinda depends on how big the tank is, though anything is really ok for fowlr. It's when you start throwing in corals that it gets important.
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[Anonymous]

Shrooms are low light, so that shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Sounds like you're right on.. - Once you get a bit of a bacteria colonization going on they'll bond with some of that free-blowing sand that's got you clouded up right now.

The longest I've had to wait was a week because I messed up and pointed a powerhead in the wrong direction and it dug out a huge corner of 7" deep sand.... :roll:

Always wait to get powerheads going until you can see for sure where they are pointed... :wink: