Quick Little Poll: Sand or Bare Bottom

[BiGGiePauls33]

Leave a comment as to why you answered the way you did.

 

[Kelly's Reef]

Use old school aragonite sand. Looks like the ocean, but does not blow all over the place when you run the pumps.

 

[Jason_charlestown]

Sandbed. I cannot stomach the look of bare bottom even if it's easier to maintain.

 

[Aquatic Nerd]

Sand. Aesthetic

 

[Cheddah93]

As much as I love my sticks and would love to turn the Vortechs up just a bit more, I hate the look of bare bottom.

 

[Blitzburggirl]

Sand. Because it is a reef. Therefore I have sand.

 

[Reefer508]

Running 2 systems side by side, one bare bottom, one with sand. Seem to have much less problems with the sandy bottom system and it look better.

 

[aresangel]

Sand. I am too lazy to deal with detritus build up and would rather have conch and other things sift the sand to clean it for me

 

[Lucas]

Sand looks better IMO more variety of inhabitants. I have two bare bottom systems and regret it.

 

[Richard Kagen]

Sand - my goal is to create mini reef ecosystem, some things like glass walls and wave makers are unavoidable, but a bare bottom would just look too out of place for me. Diamond Goby (mine have jumped to their death twice in 6 months) keep the sand nice and white. I also keep wrasses who seem to need the sand at night

 

[CAPSLOCK]

I keep a tank to enjoy looking at it and watching the inhabitants. I don't enjoy the look of BB.

 

[Zirky]

Wrasses
Gobble/ shrimp
Nasarious snails. There’s some pretty cool stuff you have to sacrifice to go bare bottom.

 

[kgstei]

So far sand Has It by a nose. ...an elephants

 

[CrypticLifeStyle]

I'd go bare bottom if i werr to do a sps only tank, otherwise the biodiversity that is added with sand I feel outweighs the extra work involved with it.

 

[Slombardi]

I like the maintenance of a BB (or lack of maintenance). Turn up the flow and nothing settles in my tank. I used black abs and within a couple months it was covered and coraline so it still looks good. I started it when I moved so all my rock was already cycled and haven't had any issues.

 

[Kelly's Reef]

I'd go bare bottom if i werr to do a sps only tank, otherwise the biodiversity that is added with sand I feel outweighs the extra work involved with it.

They call those frag tanks

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

I think the 40B is going to BB as I wanna do all High End SPS. We'll see.

 

[serwobow]

I like the look and also really like many of the creatures that use the sand. Would be fun to have a BB as a second tank.

 

[Chris A.]

BB has my vote. Reefs don’t have sand, lagoons do, while I do like the sandy bottom on a tank I’m actually liking the easy of maintenance on my BB now

 

[Patrick.S]

My tank is bb. Tried sand for 6 months and it was too hard to clean in a nano. Broke coral every water change. Also had some cyano which I haven’t had before or since