My tank was coppered 9 months ago and I can only assume that my sand bed is has lost the tiny micro inverts. It probably has plenty of denytrifying bacteria but I want to make it LIVE again.
I found a online sand supplier that claims they get their sand out of the ocean so its better than others so called LIVE sand.
My worry is the potential that this LIVE sand may contain marine ich cysts. They assured me that it would not.
Am I being paranoid on thinking of
QT live sand? If I were to
QT the sand what do I feed it?
assuming it did have ich cysts I planned on just putting it in a empty tank for a few weeks so any ich would die off. Someone told me that if you put a small amount of water from a fish system into it each day it would trick any dormant ich out of hiding and into a free swimming state. He said fish hormones in the water signal them to hatch out.
any truth to this?
I plan on adding about a inch of LIVE to my Dead sand to seed it. If I make the total sand bed 5 inches deep will I get a layer of anerobic microbes that could help take
nitrates out? Right now my FS maintanence person gravel vacs my sand just about all the way to the botton. It keeps the sand white but not sure that the best thing to do.
