Wal-mart Has Sand!

[atlfish]

I GOT SAND and your gona freak when i tell you were. WAL-MART! I was surfing the net to see where I could get some and found one of those salt water forums (like this one) where a guy descovered the Wal-mart brand "Garden Basic play sand was good. vinagur test and all. I went to my local Wal-mart and there it was! I got 4 BIG bags for 10 bucks!

 

[evanish]

Let us know how it does in the tank. :joy:

 

[teresaq]

I bought some in tenn last summer while on vacation. i got 150 lbs for my 150 gal tank. i havent used it yet, the tank is not set up yet.

 

[aceroc]

please let me know as i want to get rid of this CC and have been looking for sand. I havn't checked my wal-mart yet.
Is that the brand name of the sand "Garden Play Sand"?

 

[atlfish]

the name brand is "Garden basic" It's a wal-mart brand.

 

[1journeyman]

Wow.. sounds like a GREAT find...

 

[nevada]

what size are the bags? wat would i need for a 100g tank?

 

[jhebi]

can we just add play sand and cycle a new tank with that, or would it be better to get some LS also to put in the top??

 

[chipmaker]

One problem with using that type of sand is that it is not processed to remove any metallics.....My LFS had been a dedicated user of the southdown stuff until the tanks he started setitng up started to get weird growths and staining.....turned out the south down had metallic content in the grains....Before i would personally add a bag of the stuff to a tank I would put some in saltwater etc first and see what happens further on down the road.....So if ya want about 600 or more pounds of southdown he still has a heap of it laying out behind his shop. I took about 400 pounds of it, but used it under the pavers for a walkway in our yard.