When you think your tank couldn't stress you out anymore than it already has? Yes... your at a point where you have to add sand. Lets say you just need it due to weekly cleanings or you have that fish that seems to move it all over the place leaving your tank bare bottom in sections... Easy way to add sand to your established sand bed is with a PVC pipe. Take a tube that is as long as your tank is in depth. Have the diameter be around 2-3 inches and slowly add sand to your tank in small sections at a time. This should be done over a period of days/weeks, depending on how much sand you wish to add, so that you don't choke out the fauna in your current sand bed. I recommend, each week, to safely add a 1/4" of sand to a 5" diameter area. Try and use the PVC pipe to gently, and I mean gently, mix in the new sand into your current sand bed.
Tip# 2
When you need to transport your frags for whatever reason, a move or to your LFS, use a 5 gallon bucket and some egg crate.
Cut out the egg crate so that it fits the diameter of your bucket and set it down inside your buket. That way none of your frags touch eachother and harm themselves. If you have larger sets or colonies you can add a couple of 2 inch high 1 inch diamter PVC tubes and glue them to the bottom of the egg crate so that it raises the crate higher off the bottom of the bucket and allows you to place yoru larger colonies underneath while keeping yoru frags on top and out of harms way.
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