CaribSea Arag-Alive Saltwater Gravel - Bahamas Oolite Aquarium Gravel & Substrates at Pet Mountain

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Directions: General Use: For best results, use at least 1 pound of AragAlive! per gallon of seawater. For deep sand beds use 2 pounds per gallon. Do not rinse. AragAlive!™ may also be used to seed CaribSea’s dry aragonite products. AragAlive!™ compresses new tank cycle time and suppresses initial ammonia spike. Live rocks and most invertebrates may be placed in aquarium immediately. However, gradually introduce fish within the first 3 weeks, and do not exceed one inch of fish per gallons of water during this time.

Berlin Systems: The most suitable substrates are AragAlive!™ Fiji Pink (#00792), AragAlive! West Caribbean Reef (#00794), AragAlive!™ Bahamas Oolite (#00793), or AragAlive!™ Indo-Pacific Black (#00791). Use 1 pound per gallon. Place live rock on top covering the least amount of sand as possible. Use small reef friendly hermit crabs, shrimp, serpent stars, sea cucumbers, and other benthic animals to avoid detritus accumulations.

Sumps, Refugiums, and Deep Nitrate Reduction Beds (DRN): For offline systems, such as sumps and binary systems, the deepest bed possible is suggested for the non-display unite. Use AragAlive!™ Florida Crushed Coral (#00795) or AragAlive!™ Special Grade Reef Sand (#00790) and/or corresponding CaribSea Dry Aragonite. Plant macro-algaes such as Caluerpa sp. and illuminate on a counter daylight cycle to the display tank, or for 24 hours. When illuminated, these macro-algaes help control pH by absorbing carbon dioxide while releasing surplus oxygen. They also help control nuisance algae in the display aquarium by absorbing excess nutrients. These type sumps and binary systems are especially effective in maintaining good water chemistry in display aquariums larger then 75 gallons.

For Deep Nitrate Reduction Beds in Display Aquariums use AragAlive! Special Grade Reef Sand (00790), AragAlive! Fiji Pink (#00792), AragAlive! West Caribbean Reef (#00794), AragAlive! Bahamas Oolite (#00793), or AragAlive! Indo-Pacific Black (#00791). Add substrate to a depth of 3 to 5 inches (2 to 3 pounds per gallon). Place base or live rock so as to cover the least amount of the substrate as possible. It is especially desirable to incorporate burrowing and sand sifting fish and invertebrates for optimum health of these systems.

Stingrays, Sharks, and other soft-bellied bottom dwellers: Use AragAlive! Bahamas Oolite (00793) at one pound per gallon or more. Due to the natural sphericity of the individual grains, oolite is favored by public aquariums and research institutions for use in their systems harboring rays, skates, sharks, and other bottom dwelling fish and invertebrates.