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    Post Crushed Coral Swap for DSB

    Gonna swap crushed coral for DSB - still debating wether to swap out over time or do a one time.

    If I remove my Crushed Coral and add the Southdown with the live sand, will I lost biological filtration?

    Also, I have 2 fish (yellow tang, flame wrasse), a few brittle stars and a bunch of critters. If I add the sand and a detritivore kit from Inland - will the DSB have time to seed with the fish and critter or will they plow through all the life before it has time to establish and multiply?

    LASTLY - how much sand to I need? The tank is a 72g AGA Bowfront - 48x18 - if the sandbed is 4-6" deep, how much sand should I buy? What can I use if I cant find Southdown? How much live sand?


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    Idrum, first things first. How much live rock do you have?? Do you have corals or anemones?? I would pull the fish and critters and put them in a seperate tank or container. For the HD sand for a 5" deep sand bed you are looking at about 225 lbs. of sand. As far as the fish eating your detritivore kit, I would start a refugium to get the population established. (If you don't have one already)If there is a way you can give the sand bed a couple of months to get established without fish in the tank that would be the best way to go.

    Good Luck,
    Sker

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    Idrum,

    Check out this thread, Dr. Ron talks about the DSB conversion process.
    http://www.rshimek.com/reef/sediment.htm

    Regards,

    Scott

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