Darker sand

I think quikcrete all purpose sand looks good. But it is on the lighter side. I love my black sand but it is such a pain to keep clean


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May e you can try mixing black sand with some dark blue or brown perhaps. I'm looking to go darker than pfs too, might justgo tile.

You can mix substrates. A friend of mine mixed Tahitian Moon Sand with a lighter aquarium sand, and it looks quite nice

LOVE that Convict! Best Cichlid there is.


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Play sand from home depot is darker brown, at least as far as I remember...

3M Colorquartz, when the guys carried it here locally, carried a ton of colors. Various shades of brown as well. I forget the name of the company that has that stuff now (we dont get it locally anymore since the 3m name switch) but I'm certain you'd be able to find what you're looking for and then some.

http://www.permacolorquartz.com/Colorquartz.html


It looks like ceramaquartz was the replacement.

Jesus, it really looks like they severely limited the color selection however:

http://www.permacolorquartz.com/pdf/pooldoc.pdf

I'm not sure if this Perma ColorQuartz is much different than the CeramaQuartz but it has all the old color sheets it looks like originally available through 3m.

http://www.permacolorquartz.com/files/PermaColor_Standard_Chart_web.bmp

It specifically states that CeramaQuartz was the direct 3m replacement, however that sheet there for the PermaColor is identical to one of the old 3m sales sheets.

I tried finding the MSDS sheetrs for this CeramQuartz but was unable. Only could find the Permacolor.. the Permacolor is made with silica. that is NOT 3m Colorquartz.. the 3M stuff was color coated quartz. I assume this is CeramaQuartz as well as they bill it as the direct 3m replacement, but unable to find an MSDS for it to verify.