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Originally Posted by taricha
Still working on the idea of how to scale up the effectiveness of adding micro life to a tank sized infestation.
My skimmer "green tea" just isn't a large enough amount to disrupt the dinos sandbed home.
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An upside-down glass vessel like an old fishbowl would contain the phyto and microfauna to a small area and give them time to settle to the sand. If it doesn't work, you can increase the amount of phyto tea in the bowl and/or the time you leave the bowl in place with future trials to see if the green phyto holobiont can establish a beachhead in the sand.
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Originally Posted by taricha
I think I could culture a large mass of live sand with lots of micro critters, then remove top layer of my dino sand and replace with my fresh sand.
Been done before?
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Not to my knowledge.
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Originally Posted by dragon174
I don't want to go bare bottom, so I was thinking about slowing adding in a crushed coral type base back into the tank. Has anyone ever tried this?
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As you suspected,
dinos can infest tanks with coarse substrates, too.
But be of good cheer: in what is arguably
the definitive description of the dirty method, cal_stir said he removed and later successfully replaced his sand bed.
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Originally Posted by seamonster124
Anyone care to explain to me why UV would be beneficial also what are the side effects?
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Slow-flow UV is fundamental to
the clean method.