Regular Member selena685 Posted December 4, 2006 Regular Member Share Posted December 4, 2006 I have been investigating different types of sand substrate to use in my catfish tank. Someone has suggested Pool Filter Sand. Has anyone used this in their tanks and is it safe? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Blue Posted December 4, 2006 Regular Member Share Posted December 4, 2006 (edited) I only use sand designed for marine tanks.Only my marine tank has a sand substrate. Edited December 4, 2006 by Blue 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Reef Man Posted December 5, 2006 Regular Member Share Posted December 5, 2006 I use CC...in my tank and Sand in my Refugium.... it is marine quality sand.... South down works well, and some play sand is fine also.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member selena685 Posted December 6, 2006 Author Regular Member Share Posted December 6, 2006 I bought some sand and it says on the bag 16/30 Grade. Is this ok to use? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Reef Man Posted December 9, 2006 Regular Member Share Posted December 9, 2006 What type of sand is it?? And where did you get it??? Is it pure sand or construction grade??? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member selena685 Posted December 10, 2006 Author Regular Member Share Posted December 10, 2006 It's Pool Filter sand. The guy at the pool shop said it was natural sand which is a certain grade suitable for pool filters. No chemicals or any other stuff in it. He said it's safe to use in aquariums. I just need to rinse it a few times to get rid of the sand dust, like you would gravel. I have read on other forums that this is used in chicld tanks. I'm on a budget so I needed to find something that was not so expensive. I bought a 12kg bag for $12.95. I hope this is ok to use. I'm always worried about trying something new like this as I don't want to hurt my fish. The setup will be a freshwater tank 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Reef Man Posted December 10, 2006 Regular Member Share Posted December 10, 2006 If there are no chemicals in the sand it should work fine... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chris345 Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 i use marine substrate white sand.use sometin that is precleaned and made for aquariums 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin koko Posted December 31, 2006 Admin Share Posted December 31, 2006 When I started up I used sand that was bio cured and then a bag of reg marine sand, this way it gave the tank a boi boost 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Reef Man Posted January 2, 2007 Regular Member Share Posted January 2, 2007 I got the old southdown sand and seeded it with some sand from one of my other tanks.... Worked great....nice sand also!!!! The grains were suggar sized....the fauna and sand critter life love that size grain.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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