Never a dull moment....

[Ace]

Woke up this morning to a power head that had disconnected from the glass tank panel. Facing directly at the sand it blew a whole in my deep sandbed, and pushed the sand all over my tank.

How bad is this beyond the obvious annoyance of redistributing and moving the sand off the rocks. I'm concerned that the mature deep sand bed released harmful gases & nutrients.

Any advice other than not doing a sand bed?

 

[redfishbluefish]

Check N & P; Start making water if you don't have a bunch already made; Prepare for a water change, if needed. Otherwise, you just might have made out alright. Please remind us, how old is the tank?

 

[Ace]

The tank is 13 months old exactly

 

[Ace]

I'm contemplating removing the sand...its always causing issues

 

[greybolt03]

That's what I did with my last set up. Went bare bottom . I love it. My wife prefers the sand. But there are just to many potential issues with the sand.

 

[Ace]

the idea of actually pulling out the sand is exhausting lol

 

[mikem]

What Paul said.
My newest tank, I put tile in the front and sand in the back. It just went thru a cycle now and has algae or I would take a pic.

 

[mikem]

 

[blange3]

Give me a tank with sand!
Deep beautiful sand!
Shinning, gleaming, teaming with life and bacteria!

 

[David]

I just had to do a modification to my tank. I removed my deep sand bed and put it in a bucket. Put the same sand back, and put my live stock right back in. Nitrates went up for a while. Got a little green hair algae bloom in the folowing weeks. The fish were fine and I think the corrals Actually like it better than when the water is clean. Now the green hair algae is finally going away. You might want to be ready for an algae bloom.

 

[Ace]

tank looks great mike m. I think I may have dodged a bullet, everything is balanced and no algae blooms at this point. but I probably just jinxed it

 

[mikem]

tank looks great mike m. I think I may have dodged a bullet, everything is balanced and no algae blooms at this point. but I probably just jinxed it

Glad everything is good.