live sand

So I've seen a couple posts about this, but I felt the need to share my experience with this sand and my strong opinion towards it. I waited about 3/4 weeks to verify if the actual problem stemmed from the sand or something else. I did no other changes with my tank in terms of flow, filtration...

Okay. As EVERYONE of us is stuck at home and MANY of us have started a new project. I built my tank last week and got it salted and seeded on thursday. I was ALMOST finished cycling on Monday. Then i added more raw meat and the chems screwed up again. Which just means more bacteria so not...

If you are new to the hobby or you want to learn a little more about choosing the right substrate for your aquarium then take a look at this article from guest contributor, Robert Woods. http://aquanerd.com/2018/09/how-to-pick-the-right-substrate-for-your-marine-aquarium.html

I am shortly doing a restart on a tank, using dry rocks to try and start out as pest free as possible. I was looking at the RedSea live vs dry sand and my question is, is live sand pest free, or similar to live rock in that it can harbour nasties (ie aptasia spores etc) ?

Hi Everybody, I just got a REEFER 170 and I'm creating this thread in order to document my progress in the REEF hobby, and as a beginner, ask for advice and guidance so as to avoid clumsy mistakes as I made in the past. I stepped into the Reef hobby two years ago (2016), starting off with a...

i just recently bought a 90gal custom tank off a friend and her husband, they didn’t have time for it anymore. The only think I kept from their set up was the live rock. They told me not to put my rock onto the glass but an instagramer I talked to said his sits on the glass just fine. So I’m...

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Do you have to use live sand? or can it be just a regular substrate? Thanks in advance

Okay, this is a very newbie question as I've always had freshwater before. I received my live sand today, and my salt, and my RO unit. It might take a day or so to get the water I need. In the meantime, can I add the sand? Or do I need to wait until the water is ready to go in so it doesn't...