Tropic Eden sand - my favorite kind.
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, 12-24-2010 at 08:39 PM (12458 Views)
I've been using Tropic Eden sand in my tank for the past couple of years. It is super clean stuff and looks great, which works nicely for those that need to add more sand from time to time to an existing reef. I wrote up an article about just that: http://www.reefaddicts.com/content.p...ting-reef-tank
So when it was time to get more sand for the new 400g, I didn't hesitate to order more. I like Tonga Reeflake because it doesn't blow around in the flow generated by the Vortech pumps. My son brought the boxes into the fishroom for me, and today I added it to the reef tank.
Each box holds two 30 lb bags of dry sand, which is pre-rinsed to reduce cloudiness in the water.
Looking at the bag in the tank, you'd quickly realize it'll take quite a bit to get a 4" deep sand bed (DSB).
The easiest way to pour these out is to take a utility knife and slice open the plastic bag the full width of the packaging.
Then flip it over, fold the bag in half and pour out the sand.
It took 16 bags of sand to get close to what I wanted, depth-wise. That's 480 lbs. I still have packages of Tropic Eden Live Sand ready to add later when the saltwater is in the tank.
All that pretty sand needed to be inspected closely.
He seemed to like it.
He was very thorough, checking every square inch.
I'm pretty sure he was mocking Spock right here.
And then he was gone, leaving only paw prints behind.