Do I have crushed coral or sand?

[mmync]

I am kind of confused I knew sand was way better then crushed coral so I bought alot of carib-sea live sand and not live sand and put it into my tank. Well just yesterday I saw southdown for the first time and it is way finer then the so called sand that I have so is it sand that I have also or should it be as fine as southdown?

 

[xxvietxjustinxx]

Carib Sea alive is only full of bacteria, which is good, but you need some of the real live sand. LIke copods and other pods, good worms, and others. Ask you LFS, get as much as you can. MY LFS sells the real LS for 2 bucks a pound which is pretty good..

 

[mmync]

No, I know what I bought is real live sand. What I am confused about is why it is so much larger then southdown. Is it just that there are different size sands?

 

[thomas712]

As long as what you have is sugar sized grains then it should work just fine. If I am not mistaken the Carib Sea is also calcium cabonite based and should work just fine.
Thomas

 

[mmync]

Well all I know is that I am positive it said sand on the bag but it is probably atleast 3 times the size of sugar if not more

 

[jackdp]

If what you bought is Carib-Sea "Arag-Alive" then it is indeed sand. However, it is not as fine as southdown or some other CaribSea products labeled "oolite" or sugar sized. AragAlive has a lot of shell, shell pieces and other large carbonates in it that make it less fine. I doubt that it will cause you any problems.