Add new sand without rinse

[An ngo]

Hi guy, I just add new special grade sand without rinse. I added slowly 1/3 bag per day, but didn’t rinse. My tank seem cloudy, but I have skimmer and 2 filter socks. My tank has sps, lps and 9 fishes. Should I expect a mini cycle. I concern my coral and fish die tomorrow

 

[The Aquatic Arsenal]

Are you talking the Alive sand?

 

[Old Fritz]

Confirmation on lives and would be nice.

Also your sand that's suspended in the water column will eventually be filtered out

 

[An ngo]

yes it is alive caribsea special grade, i’m running skimmer really wet to filter out. Just concern about amonia and nitrate that will kill my sps and fishes. I still have 2/3 bag, should I rinse for next attempt?

 

[The Aquatic Arsenal]

How long has your tank been setup? Have you test for ammonia, nitrite or nitrates since you added it?

 

[An ngo]

My tank 8 months old and sps coral are doing fine in my system. Just add sand today, but haven’t rinse

 

[JDnKY]

Running a carbon reactor for a day or two should help clear it up. It may also clear up on its own in a day or two if you just added the sand today.

 

[pdxmonkeyboy]

I added 6 bags of sand without rinsing. That went well....

Even my cat was like... dude... what were you thinking?

 

[An ngo]

I’m running gfo and carbon in my filter socker

 

[pdxmonkeyboy]

I would stuff your socks full of filter floss..

 

[An ngo]

I added 6 bags of sand without rinsing. That went well....

Even my cat was like... dude... what were you thinking?

Lol that crazy, all your corals and fishes still good??. Just verify because some people told me adding sand may cause mini cycle

 

[JDnKY]

If you have any other filters, HOB or canister etc... you could hook them up for a little while. Other than that, just wait and let it settle down.

 

[pdxmonkeyboy]

Dbl post

 

[skip0211]

It will settle down.. should not be a problem... done it several times over the years..

 

[pdxmonkeyboy]

Lol that crazy, all your corals and fishes still good??. Just verify because some people told me adding sand may cause mini cycle

Adding sand will NOT cause a cycle. I dont even understand why people would say that.... unless you covered your rocks in sand and smothered the bacteria.

That was a new tank, nothing in it... except a lot of sand. Took me like 5 months to get rid of all that silt.

 

[samnaz]

I added 10 lbs to a 20 gal tank without rinsing. Everything survived. Corals and cuc, no fish.

 

[An ngo]

Thanks for your info, it just pour out 2 cup of dirty water is collected from skimmer. Will collect some more. Water start getting clear. In case I don’t want cloudiness. Can I rinse before adding the rest of the bag into my tank??

 

[Paul Sands]

Should clear up soon.

 

[brandon429]

I run a thread called the sand rinse thread where for twenty pages we beg/ask/collect before and afters of those who pre rinse and don’t pre rinse their sand. Check out the opening collection, reasons to rinse:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/so-i-didnt-rinse.592624/
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/sandbed-stirred-up.544852/#post-5723606

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/very-cloudy-water-after-sand-and-rock.559386/#post-5735864
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/question-about-vacuuming-sand-bed.616059/ https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/new-tank-milky-cloudy.616519/

Ocean direct live sand from CaribSea

Has anyone used ocean direct sand and what are your thoughts? I used it in my nano and noticed that any sand movement clouds the area pretty quickly. Any fixes for this or is it just part of having this sand

www.reef2reef.com

10 days, still won't settle and clouds fully
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/cloudy-tank.576835/

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bummer-could-use-some-help.558301/

From that collection, only one thing clear. Whoever wrote the directions for prep on the bags left out: rinse with cold tap for two hours prior to use, to evacuate silt. Throw out our flocculant pack, it’s a waste. Rinsing doesn’t remove bacteria from sand grains, enjoy your clean sand.

 

[RCeiver]

Should clear up in 24 hours. You’ll need to swap filter socks out as they will get clogged. Your fish probably won’t like you much, but they should be fine. It does storm in the ocean and water does get cloudy occasionally.