Is it the all purpose play sand from menards? If so, yes. That’s what I have. If not can you post a picture of the bag?
Collecting Substrate
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Is it the all purpose play sand from menards? If so, yes. That’s what I have. If not can you post a picture of the bag?
It is all purpose sand from Quickrete. I have been doing some more looking into poolfilter sand and it seems like a much better color once its in the aquarium so I will porbably pick some of that up instead.
Ok. Yeah I’m not familiar with that sand. I know the play sand is safe.
Pool filter sand looks nice. That was my first choice but I couldn’t find it at the store so ended up with playsand.
My gar tank was all collected substrate from my local beach. I just rinsed it in tap water. Assuming you collect it from land instead of in the river you are fine. I wouldn’t even bleach the rocks if this was my tank.
I have never bleached rocks collected from land and have never had any problems. I have my own pit mine and can dig all I want to but this time of year I would be crazy to do that. Instead I recently bought a couple bags of the all purpose gravel from Home Depot for my 110 gallon tub. Just rinse and serve!
I have also used the play sand in hillstream tanks to good effect. Mixed with the local gravel it looks quite nice. I wanted the look of a local trout stream and it fit the bill. The pool sand is sifted so you get a uniform size with that.
I have also used the play sand in hillstream tanks to good effect. Mixed with the local gravel it looks quite nice. I wanted the look of a local trout stream and it fit the bill. The pool sand is sifted so you get a uniform size with that.
I collected substrate from a local river years ago, and am still using it. It was a long process to clean, but worth it IMO. I scooped it up from the river bed in a aquarium net and rinsed it in the net while in the river to get rid of most of the fines. I then rinse a couple pounds at a time in a plastic tub with tap water (outside) to get rid of any other fines or organic matter. Then bleached the sand to kill anything left, rinsed again, dried, and then used a 2mm sieve to get the larger grains out.
I kept rays on this substrate for several years w/o any problems. I did use coated sands prior and had issues.
I kept rays on this substrate for several years w/o any problems. I did use coated sands prior and had issues.
