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Just saw this post and agree with everyone, Do Not Reuse the sand.
I did this and only took some of the sand and had nothing but problems for at least a year.
Matt,
Been banging my head against wall for a few weeks now as to why this was happening so tracked all my changes the past few months and this was the biggest.
I pulled what I could out and looks much better. There was a bunch of crap on this long HA so am sure that didn't help.
I pulled few rocks out today and didn't realize the back glass has Hair algae. I scraped what I could but am baffled why this happened. My only thought here I have switched to the IO Gel food seaweed, cyclopeze and brine shrimp. Are these foods high in phosphates?
Either way I will go back to...
Rich, I wet the socks in the sink and rinse them out. I also turn them inside out to get any crap out and rinse again. Then toss them all in the washer.
When I rented same issue with noise. Next door neighbor extremely loud and we and kids could not sleep. After asking nicely numerous times my Italian came way big time. I banged on the wall cursing them out and even in the complex. My wife too and one day the guy's wife heard me say something...
I have the 12 inch felt socks with plastic rings and never had a problem with them breaking. I even throw them in the dryer with a no heat setting with no issues.
One thing I did discover last night. Is that my fuge light bulb was dead. I replaced it with a spare I found around the house a month ago. Not sure when it died as it comes on while I am sleeping. I was bored and started looking around which is how I found it. Anyway, now I have the fuge light...
I am wondering if I have to many rocks in my tank. My theory is that they might be tightly packed causing detritus to build up therefore having high Nitrates. That being said I was going to pull the two worst HA rocks out and cook them. Now am wonder if I should remove a few more.
Any thoughts...