Traditionally reefkeepers have associated the termLive Sandwith aragonite sand harvested from the sea and shipped in seawater, or at least shipped damp, with a live coating of bacteria. But actual coral sand is in short supply globally, so Aquaforest has decided to take a totally different path and provide reefers with a kind of live sand in kit form.
AF Bio Sand is made from mined grains of calcium carbonate with a grain size from 0.5-1.5mm. You buy enough to cover the base of your tank, just like you would with any other marine substrate, and it’s shipped dry in a sealed bag, just like any other non-live sand product. Rinse before use to remove any dust, as normal, but then the similarities stop there.
Just add water
接下来，您准备三升全强度海水，打开一袋沙子，然后将两个瓶子取出 - 一个含有活硝化细菌的瓶子，另一种含有活的硝化细菌，可用于细菌以帮助其生长和繁殖。将两个瓶子的内容物倒入水中，然后将整个3升倒入开放的沙袋紫色包装中。彻底混合沙子和水，静置24小时，然后将现在的活沙子加到水箱中。这是DIY活沙。
Providing you don’t slash the bag while opening it, throw away the packaging, or are an installer in a hurry, AF Bio sand is an interesting take on live sand, and in a way, it’s no different from what we’ve been doing with dry rock and bottles of bacteria for years since we stopped using live rock.
Unlike live rock, however, natural live sand never brought in any hitchhikers, although there is no need to take sand from the ocean when 4% of the earth’s crust is made up of calcium carbonate, and it’s literally there for the taking. You don’t have to live by the sea to collect it or ship it all around from tropical beaches to colder climbs when it can probably be attained easily and cheaply from much more local sources. The sand itself is beige/white in color and the casual onlooker wouldn’t be able to tell if it’sactual coral sand或不。
Would you still need to dose with a filter maturation agent after adding AF Bio Sand? In theory, not, so whereas before you would maybe add dry sand, dry rock, then water and bacteria, with this product you add dry rock, wet live sand, then water. You’re still adding nitrifying bacteria but in a different step of the tank setup.
Unless the world runs out of natural live sand or bottled maturation fluids, AF Bio Sand is not the most necessary marine product in the world. Especially whenAquaforest已经提供了一种称为Bio S的瓶子形式的成熟流体，可与任何岩石和沙子一起使用。但是，我们确实为现有的重新保存规范的不同意见表示赞赏，因为这有助于业余爱好的发展。特别是随着自然海洋资源变得越来越稀缺。
