OK GUYS I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION AND I AM GONNA BUILD MY TANK

[kyarnkid]

OK, HAVE ONE INCH OF LIVE SAND IN MY TANK. IT IS FILLED WITH SALT WATER RIGHT NOW AND THE SAND ON THE BOTTOM. I NEED TO KNOW, WHAT IS SOME CHEAP SAND TO GET TO BUILD MY BED UP 3 MORE INCHES? DO I NEED TO TAKE SOME OF THE LIVE SAND OUT THEN PLACE IT ON TOP OF THE SAND I AM GOING TO BUY OR CAN I POUR IT IN SLOW AND MIX IT AROUND WITH THE LIVE SAND I HAVE IN IT? WILL MY SALT WATER QUALITY BE AFFECTED AFTER THE CLOUDINESS DIES DOWN?
OK THAT IS MORE THAN ONE QUESTION, BUT I KNOW YOU GUYS WILL HELP ME OUT WITH YOUR GREAT ADVICE LIKE ALWAYS. I LOVE YOU GUYS

 

[jess]

In my own experenice, Yes you can just go to your Local Fish Store or Pet Store and get regular sand (for a fish tank of course ) and mix it in with the live sand. Your water will be cloudy when you first put it in but that will go away quick. And your water levels will not change

 

[clownman]

It would be wise if you could put the livesand on the top. If you do not have any livestock such as Fish or coral, I suggest, take as much livesand off as possible and then put the livesand on top of it (spread it out).
On the other hand, if you have liverock and fish and so on, then just go for it.
Make sure you do not get the sand that is bigger than salt
Last but not least, please try to type in lower case as some may give you hard time about being rude

 

[karlas]

do you have a home depot where u live a lot of them sell south down sand it is an aragonite sand and pretty cheap
here's a site on the net u can get it pretty cheap to
cheap arag sand

 

[fshhub]

if all that you have in your tank is ls and water, go 4 it , it will get cloudy, but in a day or 2, it will clear, but it is much easier than anything else, if you got fish or anything else, soak it first or pur it down a clean unused tube like pvc, SD tropical rlay sand is cheap, if you can get it, if not use the lfs, and mix it in a bit

 

[schroder_reef]

please see my other post about Southdown tropical play sand, and how to get it. Its really quite easy no matter where you are from, well it wasn't for me, but I did all the foot work, so now its easy to get... email me with questions. schroder_is@hotmail.com
Ambie & Shawn