Which Sand

[tone4821]

Which sand do you use?

Other's please comment

[DannyW]

I use Tropic Eden Deep Sea Aragasnow, its nice and white

Danny

[lukmek]

looking to get some sand for my tank
only for decoration
looking for advise
:thanks:

[abyss]

i use aragamax sugar sized

i voted on this as this is my main sand, however, i have mixed in a small amount of courser stuff with coral rubble shells etc

love it, very white, i think the other stuff is crushed florida coral?

regards

rupert

[wozza]

60lbs of Arag alive Bahama oolite and 20lbs of Aragmax sugar sized, too small in retrospect as i have 40x turnover rate and it was a right sod to get the flow so i didnt have a sand storm, could of done with something bigger IMO.

HTH james :)

[lukmek]

now running BB:dance:

[tombsc]

BB. But if I keep my tank when I move house I'll put some sand in so interested to see the result of this.

[blub]

TMC coral sand???

[kukkurin]

who sells aragmax sugar sizes sand?

[Bradden]

I never knew there were so many options. :)

[tone4821]

for aragmax try coral culture, sponsors on here.

[blub]

how much roughly does 10lbs of sand cover? (can remember how much I had origionally!) for a 1'' covering.

Thanks Blub

[ANDREW 30]

I think the look of the sugar size sand is best by far, but is'nt the easyest to live with due to the flow that sps demand!

[chris@bluzoo]

Caribsea sugar fine for me, my sump has 3.5" in it at all times and I also have nassarius vibex sand sifting canriverous snails in there. They eat any uneaten food that enters my sump and they also turn the sand over very very slowly so as not to disturb it too much and so as not to put too much oygenated water through the sand. Some people make the mistake of putting sand sifting starfish in their sumps, I think they are too vigerous in a sump myself and they are best kept in the main tank if you wish to keep them JMO.

[kukkurin]

why is it bad to shift the sand MT?

[jimmyb]

i dont think its the amount of sand they sift MTs refering to, its the amount of benificial life they remove from the sand bed as this is what they eat

[kukkurin]

i was thinking to hava a DSB on its own and could take it off line if i needed to, so i was thinking of putting about only 2inches of sand at the most in the display tank. Is it bad if i siphon it regularly? (or maybe at least a bit from the top)