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My sandbed is about 3″ of medium to fine aragonite. If I forget to vacuum for more than a week my sandbed turns green and red and fills with bubbles, is this denitrification?

April 26, 2017aragonite Fine forget medium sandbed turns vacuum week

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My sandbed is about 3″ of medium to fine aragonite. If I forget to vacuum for more than a week my sandbed turns green and red and fills with bubbles, is this denitrification?

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It just seems like if I don’t vacuum, too much debris will accumulate. My livestock includes a Blue Hippo Tang, a Yellow Tang, a Hawkfish, a Flame Clown, a Percula Clown, a Fairy Wrasse, Frogspawn, Candycane Coral, many mushrooms and leathers, Zoanthids, a 12″BTA, and a 6″ Sebae. My tank is a 75 gal with a Remora Pro skimmer, a Fluval 404, and about 100 lb