live sand

[oddball1972]

is the pre-packed live sand in bags, thats available at LFS anygood ?

 

[kraze3]

IMO its much more beneficial to just get some sand from a local reefer and use it to seed some playsand.

 

[mg426]

Thats my thoughts on it as well.

 

[symont]

Hi Oddball,

I asked the same question two weeks ago. Follow this link to read the discussion.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=794466

 

[miston]

I don't have a local LFS with live sand, so I'll be ordering some online

Does the whiteness vary much? I'm looking for a bright white

 

[oddball1972]

ok i guess i'm off after work then to find me some live sand. maybe going with a couple of diffrent sources will help also.

 

[tygger]

i bought some southdown sand awhile back when it was still available and now I need more sand. Dont know if silica is in fact bad, but I'll stay away just in case... I can't find any "base" sand so I might have to spend $$$ for the aragalive sand.

 

[oddball1972]

ok i got some plain white sand tonight for the tank tommorow i will get some live sand and live rock for the tank

 

[kraze3]

If you are getting sand from fellow reefers, you could get it from more than one. Actually if you can I say deff do it!

GL

 

[oddball1972]

welll i don't know any fellow reefers so i'm just going to get some from "The Marine Scene" tommorow

 

[smy168]

here's the short of "packaged livesand"...how does sand stay alive in a bag, on a shelf with no temp control and most importantly...no oxygen? The Packaged sand states just "bioactive", dry sand and salt water mixed together is bioactive as well so you make the call. I spent hundreds on this stuff for my 120 about 3 years ago, it did absolutely nothing for my tank except my water was less cloudy quicker, but then what do you expect when you place wet clean sand into a tank.

Best option is to see if you can find a reefer that can spare or sell you a pound or even your LFS.

Best of Luck

 

[oddball1972]

ummmm any body had this problem? i have a ton of little sand balls on the base of the sand i guess where the sand has attached to air bubbles a few are floating and i smushed them to release the sand from the bubble works well but the majority of them are laying on the bottom of the tank i have tried stirring them and compacting them , to no effect i guess a couple of hours of soaking in the water will help ? any one had this before ?

 

[oddball1972]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6948824#post6948824 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by smy168
here's the short of "packaged livesand"...how does sand stay alive in a bag, on a shelf with no temp control and most importantly...no oxygen? The Packaged sand states just "bioactive", dry sand and salt water mixed together is bioactive as well so you make the call. I spent hundreds on this stuff for my 120 about 3 years ago, it did absolutely nothing for my tank except my water was less cloudy quicker, but then what do you expect when you place wet clean sand into a tank.

Best option is to see if you can find a reefer that can spare or sell you a pound or even your LFS.

Best of Luck

yep i am forgoing the live sand in bags and just going to get a pound or 2 tommorow from the lfs