Looking for Live sand

[Reeftreasures]

i Need about 30 lbs of Live sand to put into my girlfriends tank i thought i would have enough left over after the 125 but i don't can anyone help me out if not i'll have to wait and see if Malcolm has any after the move

thanks
Kevin

[ToUcHoFeLeGaNcE]

DUDE YOU SHOULD HAVE ASKED ABOUT 2 WEEKS AGO, I TOSSED ABOUT 50LBS OF 2YEAR OLD SAND!. i do have an extra 40lbs of south down, never used if you want it.

Touch.

[Reeftreasures]

no way i'll never use southdown again you saw the tank it's still the same

[ToUcHoFeLeGaNcE]

ive used it with awsome results.....mmmm....

[dflint]

I have some you can have, if you want to pick it up, way up here in central jersey.
It's a mix of southdown and reef sand. I picked up 2 buckets from a reefer tearing down about a month ago. I couldn't put it all in my main tank, so it's in the basement tank.

Your southdown will settle down once you have some biofilm on it to weigh it down. Eventually the silty stuff settles to the bottom.

[Nuhtty]

I dont have any sandstorms anymore...just takes some time

[RichT]

my skimmer pulled out the milky stuff in 2 days. There was actually sandy grit in the collection cup.
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/75714AquaScape_002.jpg

[Reeftreasures]

yeah i'm skimming and it's a mess the tank is clear today but if you touch near the sand its like a bomb went off and poof sand storm so i'm gonna give it time

[dflint]

I put a sock and a micron pad in the sump for the first week. Be careful cause larger sand particles can pit the magnets on pumps and power heads, thats why I also used a sponge on the return pump.

[RichT]

It sounds to me like you still have silts in your sand. I rinsed my sand until the rinse water was as clear as it was going to get and I still had some milkiness. I think over time the larger particles will work their way up and the silts down. So you'll always get sand storms just not the milkiness unless you penetrate the bed deeper.