Rinsing new sands and the DROUGHT

[DOGGIE750]

I have close to 300 lbs sand that I need to rinse and I'll be damn so I would need your advise the best approach to save water. My lawn is brown and I enhanced faucets and toiled flush hardwares but rinsing the sands would be difficult. Any thoughts reefers? Cheers.

I could collect your RODI waste?

 

[imjedi76]

I just put mine in the tank, added water and used a couple of powerheads on high with a canister filter filled with floss.. stirred up the sand every so often.. took a few days but it all cleared up and still clear after I stirred up the sand some more

 

[EnderTurtle]

Rinse with rodi waste water then scoop up sand with a net or cup that has holes.

Strain out fine sediment and pour sand into tank through a long pvc pipe. Letting it enter the tank with the pvc pipe reduces tank cloudiness drastically.

Takes a long *** time but being green usually cost more time/money.

Thats what I did with my sand.

Where are you located and where are you driving from?

Im in san mateo if youre willing to pick up, I will be willing to collect my rodi waste water.

 

[vhuang168]

You're welcome to my waste ro/di as well but driving around plus cost of containers might be more than using tap.

You could approach a LFS but I think gas n container costs would be similarly prohibitive.

I think @Endertuturtle's way sounds feasible.

I used live sand so no rinsing for me. Only 60lbs straight into tank but took 1 day to clear up.

 

[Doppler17]

Not sure if i did this very well or not. But had to do a tank change out and needed to rinse the crap out of my 5 year old sand ... I used the old tank water to rinse the sand. The sand was in a fine fish net and i did it one scoop at a time. Left a few inches of water in the old tank. Stirred it all up, then scooped out with fish net, and used same fish net to rinse with old tank water and a couple 5 gallon buckets...

 

[DOGGIE750]

I am in Hayward, close by to SM but would be nice if there any closer to me.

 

[Psionicdragon]

dump it in and run a canister with filter flush

 

[DOGGIE750]

I think I saw this on ATM TV show, sand first then placed a plastic sheet on top of the sand layer then add water slowly.

Any thoughts?

 

[EnderTurtle]

You're talking about how to add water to the sand without disturbing it? Yeah that will work I think.


Doesn't help with cleaning the sand.

For me I also rinsed the sand by adding it in a bucket, stirring it around with my hand, and pouring out the water onto my neighbor's garden.