quickrete sand

[evilss]

the lightest sand that i can find is the quickrete brand. does any one think that i can get by with this kind. the home depot thats around here only has some real dark sand. if anyone has any ideas please post them. i dont have the kind of money right now to buy all live sand. thanks for all of your replies.

 

[cprdnick]

I don't think I would buy it unless it says sterilized on the package. Home Depot should have play sand in the same area as the quickrete. I'm pretty sure it's sterile.
This brings a new question to mind that might help your thread. Does anyone know if you can boil sand?

 

[evilss]

the sand that i found stated that it was triple washed. so i hope that its clean. i found this sand at lowes. home depot had some really crappy samn. thanks for the reply.

 

[jedininja]

There is one sand from quickrete that i would use. It is the quickrete playsand in a white, red, and green bag. It is sanitized, but there are pices of debris from other things in there so make sure you rinse it out before putting it in your tank.

 

[evilss]

thanks that the kind that i found. it looks real clean except for a lil bit of stuff in it.

 

[cprdnick]

ok, I used to work at lowes, I don't know if its quickrete brand but it should be a white back with red lettering and I think it has a picture of a sand box.

 

[cprdnick]

white bag I mean

 

[beaslbob]

Originally posted by cprdnick
I don't think I would buy it unless it says sterilized on the package. Home Depot should have play sand in the same area as the quickrete. I'm pretty sure it's sterile.
This brings a new question to mind that might help your thread. Does anyone know if you can boil sand?
Yep but you gotta heat it up pretty hot. then it becomes glass
woops maybe you meant in water. Sure you can, just a mess and not necessary. I used to bake it to sterilze it. But that was a real mess and was before I had a wife.
I was also worried about quickrete. I think something like mortor or concrete goes by that name. Not a good idea to add a tank.
I just use play sand with some crushed coral on top for the white effect.

 

[reefnut]

Stay away from crushed coral!! The larger granulates will catch and trap debris. No reason to add any anyway .

 

[jedininja]

Yeah, quickrete also makes cement. You defiunatly dont want to grab the wrong bag and turn your tank into a HUGE brick! The Quickrete playsand is usually the most colorful bag in the shelf so its not hard to distinguish. It is silicate, but I haven't had any problems, not as long as you are using RO water without phosphates and have proper biological filtration.

 

[donjasper]

Originally posted by evilss
the lightest sand that i can find is the quickrete brand.
That's what I used. I'm happy with it.

 

[evilss]

thanks alot for all the replies. the information helped out alot

 

[overanalyzer]

you might also looked for a white crushed marble product @ home depot. My brother is in N. Cali and he uses that for his tanks and it looks better than the sand. It is silicate free too

 

[jedininja]

I live in N. Cali too and havent seen anything like that at HD. Do you think you can get a product name? I would like to check that out.

 

[overanalyzer]

Originally posted by jedininja
I live in N. Cali too and havent seen anything like that at HD. Do you think you can get a product name? I would like to check that out.
do search for broncofish ... he posted some pics of it a while back ...or put a post out here for him. He is working odd shifts so you may haveto bump it a couple of times.
I will also let him know next time we talk (jsut got off the phone with him moments ago - or I'd call him right now).
HTH