where to get a decent sand sieve?

[mellowvision]

I don't need a fancy testing sieve, but I'd like a set of sieve pans that I can seperate gravel from sand with. I've used the cooking ones before, but some work better than others... would love to find something with varying screen sizes, that would work better with wet sand.

any ideas?

[CWO4GUNNER]

Why? If you want some great looking course sand white with black speckles you can buy 90 Lbs bags at Lowe's for $7. But if you must separate sand from gravel you can make your own screen by mesh size and frame it on four sides with 1X4 boards cost about $10.

[dixienut]

try the goodwill and get a metal colender or perhaps a plastic,.. not screen ones,..

[PsyKick]

Ive had good experiences using splatter guards from target or kmart

[kj5kb]

just a thought...I once had a set of 3 cat litter pans with offset slots. You stacked them with the middle one reversed so it formed a solid pan. You took off the top one and sieved the cat poo out, then reversed that pan and put it on the bottom.
It worked well.

Those PROBABLY would do what you want, depending on the size of the gravel.

[mellowvision]

I primarily want it to sift used substrate for it's next tank... and to remove snails from the substrate. but the substrate is half sand half eco complete and I'd like to seperate them as much as possible, so I can use the eco UNDER the sand in the next tank.