[jackson6745]

Everything has been doing well and growing fast. Hopefully soon this tank will finally be grown out. I decided to add sand to the tank since I didn't have much live rock. The theory behind my decision to add sand was to create more surface are for bacteria to grow. I have no idea if this is going to help but it can't hurt

[jackson6745]

[Deanos]

Sweet micromussa/blastomussa combo ! Nice blue micros

[jackson6745]

[bad coffee]

Great colors!

muahahahahha another BB tank goin to sand!

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[marrone]

I should have made a list of everyone that said they would never go with sand again. I think we wouldn't have anyone left, so much for that trend I guess.

[jackson6745]

I would never go with a DSB again. It is far too difficult to keep your water pristine for SPS. I am a fan of BB tanks and I would reccomend that type of setup for SPS. My main concern was that since I don't have much rock in the tank, I don't have enough area for nitryifing bacteria to grow. I was going to add a remote sandbed/refugium but I didn't feel like plumbing anything. It was easier to pour in some sand.
I only added 25lbs of carrib sead reef-flor sand to give me 1" of sand. IMO it still functions like a BB since I can blast off any ditritus and not create a sandstorm.

	SPS Small Polyped Scleractinians - Sometimes known as Small Polyped Stony corals. These are hard corals that have extremely small polyps. They are typically on the difficult side and require Metal Halide lighting or dense Power Compact or T5 arrays. These corals are prized for their rareness and ability to be easily fragged into multiple colonies.

[SlamaJama]

omg, the sps pimp, the BB king, went sand..looks awesome Mr. Rich!

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	SPS Small Polyped Scleractinians - Sometimes known as Small Polyped Stony corals. These are hard corals that have extremely small polyps. They are typically on the difficult side and require Metal Halide lighting or dense Power Compact or T5 arrays. These corals are prized for their rareness and ability to be easily fragged into multiple colonies.

[herman]

There are two people that I would have never thought would ever go back to sand. Andres and Rich. First the beckett and then the BB went.

At least you are back to SPS pimp Looks good dude. Come by for a beer or ten. I have all your old pics.

	SPS Small Polyped Scleractinians - Sometimes known as Small Polyped Stony corals. These are hard corals that have extremely small polyps. They are typically on the difficult side and require Metal Halide lighting or dense Power Compact or T5 arrays. These corals are prized for their rareness and ability to be easily fragged into multiple colonies.

[jhale]

I see your following the trend of a SSB

At least we have the best of both worlds.

A BB-SBB.

You might want to try the remote sandbed.

The fuge/DSB in my sump could be responsible for my
No3 being 0. Don't be lazy, grab a bucket and try it out, lol.