Cheap sand for 75G BW tank?

[brackishwannbe]

Anybody know where I can pick up some cheap sand??

[Anton Wernher]

Your local hardware store or pool supply store... One 50 lbs bag would be enough and should run you 3-10 bucks.

[brackishwannbe]

Thanks.. I stop at a pool supply store tomorrow.

[Huyzel]

ya, i got some decorative sand from home depot up here in toronto .
it is meant as decorative white silica sand or sandblasting sand.
cost me a whole $6.98 canadian.

i made the horrible mistake of being lazy and not washing it out very well :(
really dirty.

Huy
:D

[slipknottin]

Try to find "southdown tropical play sand" at a local Home Depot.

Its agronite sand, mined from the same place as CaribSea.

It will keep the Ph steady at about 8.2ish.

[gcvt]

Agreed with Slip...again.

Southdown is a great way to go! Unfortunately, they don't sell the stuff on the west coast, but you should (hopefully) be able to find it at Home Depot in Ohio.

The may have recently changed the packaging a little bit, but here's what it looks like:
http://www.motorworld.com/gcvt/pets/fish/pics/southdown.jpg

[latazyo]

I agree with teh person posting on the sandblasting sand, the sand I bought at Menard's for 2.50/50# bag is gorgeous, it is the color of desert/ocean sand, it is VERY white/tan in color, beautiful sand, VERY cheap, I also have a 75 gal and I put 100# of this in my tank....I too made the mistake of not rinsing, but it looks great

[brackishwannbe]

thanks for all the info...

I'll try and find both sands over the holidays. I getting all my gear ready so when I get my 75G out of lay-away I'll be ready to crank-it-up.

gcvt.. thanks for pic..no way I can miss it now.

[Huyzel]

i wish i could find some of that nice carribian play sand up herer in canada :(

[gcvt]

Originally posted by Huyzel
i wish i could find some of that nice carribian play sand up herer in canada :(

I hear ya - hard to find in Cali too:(

My sandblasting sand is working out fine, but that Southdown is the best - great looking stuff too.

[brackishwannbe]

I been to HD, Lowes and online and haven't been able to find any Southdown sand, but I did found some Quicrete sand at Lowes. Anybody every hear of it? I'm going to keep looking. I have a month before I actually need the sand.

[latazyo]

you're kidding about the quicrete, right?

[gcvt]

I've used Quikrete products in lots of different tanks and never had a problem. http://www.quikrete.com/catalog/catalog_sand.html

[Dabbler II]

I have a question would the "glass beads" that they use for blasting work for a nice white sand. I just thought of this, it should act just like sand and you can get it in any grain size. I just might have to try it in a 10 gal tank

[latazyo]

I was thinking of qwikrete concrete mix...hehe...that could get messy

[tyler]

you grisled boon.

i had quickrete play sand in a tank for a while. it contains limestone, so it's going to do some ph buffering.

http://www.aquariumadvice.com/albums/album11/aaa.jpg

this is what it looked like.

[tyler]

and one more thing, i don't know about you, but i certainly wouldn't want the bottom of my brackish tank to look like a carribean beach.

i'd give my vote to pool filter sand.

[latazyo]

I have 3 dif kinds of sand in tanks in my room, I'll take pics of all three and let you choose between them in ONE WEEK