who uses what sand?

[enemec1]

who uses?
Quickcreet
or
kolorscape
and how do you like it?
both are at HD or Lowes

 

[enemec1]

^^^

 

[Scuba_Steve]

im pretty sure those are both silica sands, not the best thing to use in a reef tank. southdown is about the only good normal sand i know of, its an aranite sand. good luck finding it though

 

[DrBDC]

I've always used southdown/old castle/yardright which is oolitic. This time when I upgraded tanks I went with special reef grade and that has slightly larger sized grains. I've had more problems with nitrates than I have in the past. It seemed to take longer to get a good filtration to establish. I'm thinking about slowly switching the sand but that is such a pain. Maybe a remote dsb with oolitic would be easier.