beach sand in freshwater tank

I'd advise against it, who know's what's in that sand!

It rise the salt level pretty high up and turn it brackish.

Its the bay area. I would be worried about pollution. Don't do it. Go to a pool store and buy pool sand its cheap.

DucatiDragster;2054853; said:

I'm curious if I could use beach sand in a freshwater tank setup?

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There is a lot more to rinsing salt water sand!!1

I had a 60gl up and running for 2 yrs and I had beach sand in it.
I got a 5gl bucket and took it home, washed the hell out of it and baked it for 3 days (1hr, 2 times a day at about 1/8" thick). Everytime i baked it, I would wash it again.
I first put in potting soil (frogot the exact name of it) then with a 1/2" layer of baked beach sand followed by my gravel. I was using the sand to keep the potting soil from moving... so my plants could use it...
make a long story short, It worked for me and I had a 5" Scomb and 2 VATFs, frontosa, feeders... diff fish with in that time and I kept 2 of the fish throu out the process and had no probs.
With that being said... I dont reccom only cause I didnt know to much and as deep as I do know but if you do Bake the hell out of it to try to kill any junk in the sand.
JMO, dont quote me on it