If you through a penny in your reef tank, bacteria will
grow over it. So does that bacteria prevent the copper
from dissolving into the water?

Answer: no

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Wayne Sallee wrote on 3/23/2006 5:04 PM:
So that's what you are doing in your tank when nobody's home :-)

Yea I'm not saying that one can't have a sucsefull reef tank with silica
sand. That would not be true. But what I am saying, is that I don't
think that the idea that "the calcium sand provides no benefit over the
silica sand" is correct.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



RicSeyler wrote on 3/23/2006 3:51 PM:


Wayne Sallee wrote:

Has this idea been tested in low oxygen areas deep in the sand?

Also what about things that eat the sand, like sea cucumbers.

What we have here is (Pensacola Beach) Silica Based Sand and all our
wild critters seem happy..
Pure White, I mean pure white!! It even squeaks when you walk on it. :-)