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rdmpe
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There is a guy giving some southdown away but over in Tampa I think
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=925737
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=925737
taku
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Hey FYI I was just at 2 HD's today (17/92 location near 436... and also the one on red bug rd), at target, and also at Lowe's. I love HD but they just didn't have the WHITE sand I was looking for.. they have playsand, it's that offwhite.. kinda manilla colored sand that I wasn't down for. Lowe's on Red Bug Rd is where I found this sand...
I found "Quikrete" Patio Paver Base Sand http://www.quikrete.com/catalog/PatioPaverSand.html
Anyways it's really really white, soft but not too powdery.. I dunno how to explain it, but in my opinion it's the perfect size sand grains..
Anyways I sucked a bunch of sand out of my 120 today and I'll be adding the sand over the next few days. It's a silica sand, and quite frankly I've never seen any hard evidence that it's bad for my tank so I'm all about it for $7.02 for 100lbs worth!!!!
Oh by the way, I found this sand out in the lawn and garden area under the covered portion of the garden area... by itself. Not sure why they had it out there, but here's what the bag looks like:
I'll post up when I'm done to let you know how it goes
I found "Quikrete" Patio Paver Base Sand http://www.quikrete.com/catalog/PatioPaverSand.html
Anyways it's really really white, soft but not too powdery.. I dunno how to explain it, but in my opinion it's the perfect size sand grains..
Anyways I sucked a bunch of sand out of my 120 today and I'll be adding the sand over the next few days. It's a silica sand, and quite frankly I've never seen any hard evidence that it's bad for my tank so I'm all about it for $7.02 for 100lbs worth!!!!
Oh by the way, I found this sand out in the lawn and garden area under the covered portion of the garden area... by itself. Not sure why they had it out there, but here's what the bag looks like:
I'll post up when I'm done to let you know how it goes
i'm thinking about going with the quickrete/playsand route as well...do you guys rinse the stuff before u put it in the tank? or just throw it int here? i am upgrading from my 29 to a 58 RR so i will be using a couple of cups of sand from the old tank.
taku..did you get the sand added? any updates pr pics?
taku..did you get the sand added? any updates pr pics?
taku
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Update is as follows, the Quikrete (SPECIFICALLY PATIO BASE SAND... NOT the QUIKRETE playsand version!!!!) sand was super white in the bag, but after it got wet while I was rinsing it and I looked at it in the tank I didn't like the coloration. FYI the sand was NOT really clean.. there were all sorts of little black chunks of who knows what floating bits that I had to rinse out. Ultimately I ended up putting the washed sand around the base of my 2 oak trees in the backyard... it looks super white out there.. just not in the tank compared to my existing sand bed.
I sucked out probably 50lbs of my existing sand bed, maybe more.. several inches from the top layer. Ohhhhh Man!!! the syphoned sand/water that came out was GNARLEY!!! Surprisingly enough after syphoning the top couple inches, the under layers were crisp white and clean.. I stirred up a few areas by accident while moving around my rocks and not much "dust" came up... vs the top layers where brown crap came out if the sand was stirred. My remaining sand bed is now about 2" deep around the front and about 3" in the rear.
Anyways I have NOT found any suitable sands for my tank yet... Quite frankly I'm probably going to the LFS to buy some of that sugar pink fiji sand.. or whatever that stuff is. I have that in my nano and it's the most white I can think of.. It's going to be like $15-$20 per bag.. but it looks so good I'm just going to do that.
I have pictures but can't find my digi cable.. hopefully will have them uploaded within the next 2 days.
Quikrete is still physically good substrate, but my "under layer" of sand was more white than the quikrete after it was wet in the tank.
I sucked out probably 50lbs of my existing sand bed, maybe more.. several inches from the top layer. Ohhhhh Man!!! the syphoned sand/water that came out was GNARLEY!!! Surprisingly enough after syphoning the top couple inches, the under layers were crisp white and clean.. I stirred up a few areas by accident while moving around my rocks and not much "dust" came up... vs the top layers where brown crap came out if the sand was stirred. My remaining sand bed is now about 2" deep around the front and about 3" in the rear.
Anyways I have NOT found any suitable sands for my tank yet... Quite frankly I'm probably going to the LFS to buy some of that sugar pink fiji sand.. or whatever that stuff is. I have that in my nano and it's the most white I can think of.. It's going to be like $15-$20 per bag.. but it looks so good I'm just going to do that.
I have pictures but can't find my digi cable.. hopefully will have them uploaded within the next 2 days.
Quikrete is still physically good substrate, but my "under layer" of sand was more white than the quikrete after it was wet in the tank.
