For those who have white sand...

[ccg]

Recently I switched my 35 and 45 gallon tanks over to white sand, and I am loving it.

I have already gotton good at cleaning it and the fish are loving it. My only problem is that it shows EVERYTHING

How does everyone go about keeping it neat and tidy? Just daily cleaning or what?

Thanks for all the replies and suggestions,
Colen.

 

[Ben]

every 3 3 or 4 days i take a syphon and gently syphon everything off the top

very easy

DD

 

[Bloo]

That's white sand for you but it's lovely though.
I just do a vac every few days - it's a matter of minutes, so no big deal. Once a week I lightly stir the sand and lift driftwood to ensure nothing compacts.

 

[ccg]

That is what I have been doing so far, its only my 3rd day with it. It's actually a lot quicker than vacing gravel. I am pleased so far, and it looks awsome.

 

[abstract]

a technique that works well if you don't feel like vaccuming that much is just swirling the water over the sand a little bit to create kind of a whirlpool (enough to pick up the debris but not the sand)...this will bring the particles up into the water column and most should make it to your filter - it works especially well in a planted tank where you can't always get a vacuum down to the bottom of the tank.

EDIT: almost forgot - eventually you wont notice it....at first when i switched to sand my eye was drawn to every little dark particle on the sand..but now that it's been a few months i actually prefer the spots of debris here and there - it looks so much more natural than clean sand lol

 

[Paul_MTS]

i tend to find the poo gets moved out of sight under wood. all i do then is vac around the wood with my weekly water change, i then lift the wood every couple of weeks to get all the crap out.

 

[Gill]

I do the Swirling thing as well.
Just swirl above the sand and move to the Filter Inlet.