Old sand still good?

[Mudslinger14]

I have about 10lbs of aragonite sand that was taken out of a previous saltwater set up. It's been sitting in a bucket for a few months (maybe 6?). It doesn't smell of anything when it's dry, but when I tried to rinse out all of the dust, it smelled kind of bad. Not sure if this means it's a nono to put into my established 14g biocube...anybody had the same situation and is there any way of cleaning the sand so I can use it? Or should I just chuck it?
Thanks

 

[rwellbaum]

i think you should be fine putting it into your tank just rinse it off more

 

[Cooterbrown]

Put it in a Rubbermaid tote and then just stick the hose in it and let the water run for a few hours and stir it up every so often. I've re used sand. I do it different though I dump it next to my drive way and let it sit for a few months and get rained on and baked in the sun the rake it up and rinse it really good

 

[Cooterbrown]

Or put a little bleach in the bucket an stir it up once a day and then rinse it and poor rodi an declorinator in te bucket and let it sit for a week adding declorinator everyday

 

[Mudslinger14]

Thanks dude. Ill try that out with a powerhead instead of a hose. Every couple of hours I'll empty some water and replace it? Here in arizona, water is quite precious haha especially to my dad.

 

[Cooterbrown]

Ah I see. Here in Kansas even with the drought water is cheap. I run my sprinkler and rodi daily and long showers and my bill has never been about 50$

 

[Otherone]

Seems like alot of work to save a few dollars worth of sand that smells bad

 

[Ptrick125]

Seems like alot of work to save a few dollars worth of sand that smells bad

That's about 15 bucks of sand... I would try to save it


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[Mudslinger14]

I had the sand in a small tank for a couple of days with a powerhead it didnt smell of anything by the time i had changed the water a few times and rinsed it through again so i added it to the tank and it looks great.
My two panorama pro fixtures came in the mail today. I installed them successfully in my hood with zip ties and the screws they provided me. My tank had been 'in the dark' without any direct light for a few months now and now that I have my lights on (12k/445nm and a 445nm/magenta) my damsels colours are popping and the whole tank looks better than ever. I'm going to wait a few weeks probably to do some more research before I take another dive into the wonderful world of corals and try to stock my tank anymore.
That aside, I was observing my tank after putting my lights on and I think I've come across a corynactis growing on the back wall. It's about .25 inch in diametre at the moment and as soon as I saw it I thought 'aiptasia', but I did some googling and came up with this image http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=1766 which looks exactly like it. I caught my damsel nipping at it once but he seems to leave it alone for the most part. Anyway I'm pretty excited about this and I'm looking forward to my tank evolving. I'll try to get some fts up in a bit.

 

[Cooterbrown]

I'm not familiar with corynactis but looks like a non photosyn cup coral. I have a small colony of them. Never heard of them appearing spontaneously though. They reproduce by budding mostly. Can't imagine you had one appear from a planktonic state. Look closer and make sure it's not a Mojano anemone