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which sand?
- Thread starter cmsurfr22
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In my old 75 and in my current 180 I used both Caribsea Aragamax Sugar-Sized Sand: 0.2 - 1.2mm AND CaribSea Arag-Alive Bahamas Oolite Sand 20lbs, and once established never really had/have a problem with it blowing around, even with 2 VorTechs turned up pretty high. My sandbed is around 2".
Like Wendy I too have Bahama oolite in 3 of my tanks and pink fiji in the other, I don't have a problem either with it blowing around (at first I did when the tanks where new). In my 120 I have a vortech, tunze 6000, and 3 hydor 3's, in my 80g bow I have 2 vortechs, 2 tunze 6055's and a hydor 1 and no problems with blowing sand. If you plan to keep gobies or other sand dwelling fish you want a smaller grain sand (it's better for them) if not you can go with a sand that is a bigger grain like pink fiji or special grade, I like the oolite the best. Any of the 3 sands will give you the de-nitrifying benefit as long as the sand bed is deep enough. I like a 2-3" sand bed in my tanks and keep a 4" bed in my sump/fuge, my other sump/fuge has a 3" mud bed and 2-3" sand bed in the display. So it really is up to you what sand you use, it's really just a matter of playing with the power heads to get the flow the way you like it and waiting for the sand to settle down. It took mine a good month, it helps if you have a gobi to stir it up, it makes the tank look like crap at first but after a while you wont get the dust storms like when the sand was new.
where can i get Bahama oolite locally at the decent price? i would be looking at 100-125pounds?
