Sandbed Question

[reefing102]

Is possible to have a 2 story sand bed? As in you have your regular sand bed on the bottom of the tank but then you have a flat piece of rock up in your rock work and have it surrounded by other rocks and you put sand in there. would that work?

[Mel-E-Mel]

That actually sounds like it would look nice! I have never seen it done but i dont see why you couldnt do it. Just make sure its positioned so you dont have ridiculas sand storms when yoour ph's are on.

[kaihonu82]

yea, i could see potential sand storm problems...but if you can work everything out with your flow, it could be cool

[reefing102]

ive never seen it done either, i was actually thinking about it from (finding nemo - suprisingly(the scene where the school meets, and there's rocks all around it - with the sponge beds) I don't have a big enough tank to try it out i just think it would look cool too

[2crazyreefers]

You may be able to use some shelf rock, and find a saw to cut some strips of it then somehow glue them together on the sides to hold the sand. I am getting some of this rock tuesday which is like 1/4 inch flat sheets and I am playing with the idea of creating a staircase in our new 120 for all our micro's and blastos. Dont want it to look like a feshwater set up though.

[Scissorhand]

Neat idea. Definitely a DIY job to seal the bottom of the 2nd story sandbox, otherwise I imagine that it'd be empty eventually. Then, strategically place it where there's low flow.

[hypertech]

You could make the ridge to hold the sand with spray foam.

[Mel-E-Mel]

the spray foam hypertech mentioned would actually be alot easier to create a ridge around the edge of some shelf rock. 2crazyreefers idea with cutting some strips to make the ridges is also doable....just more time but you will achieve a more natural look. the foam eventualy will look natural aswell.

[hensleyrobw]

sound like a good idea, should look pretty neat, only problem i can think of is a goby that thinks the sand should be somewhere else.