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Sounds good, there is no rush when it comes to the opae ula tanks, they have to be well matured :D On that note, the site says the macroalgae speeds up the process. I've already ordered some as well as snails, but it doesn't say how much it speeds things up. I guess in general wait a few weeks and ...

Fine grain sand is fine, why would it be bad? My opaes love picking up grains of sand and looking for goodies on it. They even swim around with it. I second this, my Opae pick up my shiney fine sand and swim around with it and eat from it. I have read fine sand is better because they can pick it up...

Well it seems nobody in 30 miles has black aragonite sand that isn't also live sand. Didn't see any online either. I did find calcite sand though. Its made by Seachem. Its not black but at least it is close enough to hopefully go well with the lava rocks and it should do the same thing for the water...

Looked around some more and sounds like it would be safest to return the live sand due to potential for adding a lot of ammonia to the tank. I also found at least one post expressing that black substrate ends up looking too "dirty." I know that health wise the choice of substrate type does...

wasnt sure what live sand was, i wouldnt use that now ive looked, if you get die off from it, it will produce ammonia. I already bought the sand, should I return it? Trouble is that I haven't been able to find any black aragonite that isn't live sand (and only found one bag of it for that matter). ...

wash your sand in RO/distilled water and throw it in, with your rock, add your salt water and wait for it to cycle/grow algy. The aragonite sand should keep the PH from crashing, its worth buying a ph test kit for saltwater to check from time to time. the marine salt you add will raise the PH also....

Hi all, I'm in the VERY early stages of setting up a Opae Ula tank (all I've got right now is the tank and a piece of lava rock). Its to be a long, 6.6 gallon tank which I assume will be enough to eventually accommodate a nice-sized population of shrimp and snails (given how many are kept by some he...