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08/12/2007, 09:08 PM
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black sand?
I've been window peeping, looking at folks photos, (jmait has some nice ones!!). I was thinking I wanted the rockless side of the tank with dark sand, and the rock pile with lighter sand. I don't see anyone with the dark sand in their photos. Is their a reason? It seems like it would be cool, but it doesn't seem very popular...thoughts? Killingseed and souleman, your the only ones online??
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08/12/2007, 09:28 PM
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its cool i thought about it, but doesnt offer and buffering. and that comes only from that sand, so to get the buffering you end up getting a mix of white and black. you can use just the black but in the long run it may not be worth it.
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08/12/2007, 10:00 PM
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consuelo - It’s hard to see in the first pic but I used a layer of black sand at the bottom of my sand bed. I layered white sand on top of that. Then I add sand from TBS on top. My thought was that the area at the very bottom was a denitrifying anaerobic area and the darker the better. I did find aragonite black sand like this:
 I’ve read on RC that those who use it do not like the appearance after a while. In the end it was you like!    Jay
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08/13/2007, 12:16 AM
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I think your tank will be a lot brighter with the white sand.
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08/13/2007, 09:00 AM
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i had to go back and look though some of my old stuff and here is some good reading and images.
http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...hreadid=843828 http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...=tahitian+moon http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu...4/aquarium.htm http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...=tahitian+moon |
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08/13/2007, 07:26 PM
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While stationed in Panama (20 years ago!!) I got to go to a black sand beach. Kind of a bad picture but man was it hot on the feet!! Ouch, ouch!
  Jay
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08/13/2007, 07:40 PM
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still kickin it around...I like the look, the tank stand and canopy are very light (maple look), but the idea of more than average cleaning is a little off putting...with 2 dogs, 4 cats, 2 horsed, 40 chickens, 15 or so pigeons, 30 poison dart frogs, two giant day geckos, and a leopard tortoise in a pear tree, I do enough **** patrol.....
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08/14/2007, 01:12 PM
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Caribsea make a black and white aragonite....Indo Pacific is what they call it.
I just had a customer here that was converting his black sand to natural//white.....he was tired of the black. Strayvoltage is correct regarding the white producing a brighter enviroment that Corals love. |
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#9
08/30/2007, 01:50 AM
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True, the black sand will show all, lol. That Indo Pacific aragonite is sweet, but kinda pricey. If I could do it all over again, I would probably use the more coarse sand. The sugar fine never seems to settle out. And if u get a sleeper goby, all your rock will be coated, lol.
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