dsb or regular?

fishkid6692 · 03/13/2008, 11:57 PM

i am setting up a sps tank and i was wondering if it was harder to maintain a dsb than a regular. i plan on having a jawfish so i want to know if it's hard.

Fish_wiz2 · 03/14/2008, 05:50 AM

DSB so it can hold your jawfish and aid in the biological filtration.

Roy G. Biv · 03/14/2008, 05:55 AM

With the right livestock, you never need to maintain it. Every morning my tank looks like a japanese garden with all of the trails in the sand.

papagimp · 03/14/2008, 07:47 AM

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Originally posted by Fish_wiz2
DSB so it can hold your jawfish and aid in the biological filtration.

The jawfish will be detrimental to the function of a Deep Sand Bed, but with a jawfish you will need to have at least 3-4" of substrate (don't use crushed coral or anything either, use a finer grade sand, with a little courser stuff mixed in, jawfish will like having a variety of sizes of "chunks" to use in constructing their burrows. So techinically you'll have a deeper sandbed, but may not function as a nitrate removing sandbed , at least not as well as if there were no jawfish. personal opinion, love the jawfish, miss my last yellowhead that "disappeared" (I think he dug the wrong way under the wrong rock....crushed)

fishkid6692 · 03/14/2008, 11:51 AM

so what kind of cuc should i have for a dsb?

Nykademus · 03/14/2008, 12:27 PM

By regular do you mean bare bottom or only a couple inches of sand?

I guess my line of thinking is that if you are going to have sand in a tank and deal with the mess it can sometimes cause.. why not make it a functional part of the ecosystem?

03/13/2008, 11:57 PM	#1
fishkid6692 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: danbury, CT Posts: 3,193	dsb or regular? i am setting up a sps tank and i was wondering if it was harder to maintain a dsb than a regular. i plan on having a jawfish so i want to know if it's hard.

03/14/2008, 05:50 AM	#2
Fish_wiz2 Mangroves are kool. Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Chicago Posts: 5,246	DSB so it can hold your jawfish and aid in the biological filtration. __________________ -The Wiz Current Tank Info: Elos Mini Seahorse Tank, 2500 gallon Koi pond

03/14/2008, 11:51 AM	#5
fishkid6692 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: danbury, CT Posts: 3,193	so what kind of cuc should i have for a dsb? __________________ ~matt~ Current Tank Info: 180g - 4' by 3' by 2'. bubbleking mini 180, apex controller, (2) vortech mp40's, phosban reactor, geissmen moonlight fixture

03/14/2008, 05:55 AM	#3
Roy G. Biv Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Jersey Posts: 3,646	With the right livestock, you never need to maintain it. Every morning my tank looks like a japanese garden with all of the trails in the sand.

03/14/2008, 12:27 PM	#6
Nykademus Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 530	By regular do you mean bare bottom or only a couple inches of sand? I guess my line of thinking is that if you are going to have sand in a tank and deal with the mess it can sometimes cause.. why not make it a functional part of the ecosystem?