Silica blasting sand

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Tbone7050

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I know of black diamond but due to my location I can not get any. But a local store sells silica blasting sand. Is this good for the fish and is it easily picked up by filters or moved?? Any other information would be great thanks.


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I've never used blasting sand, but I've heard it's very jagged and can cut gills up. I use pool filter sand and I love it.

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I haven't used silica but using red garnet which is used in sand blasting... But I have seen people using silica... Never heard any bad.... At sand blast stores you are able to find various sizes... Don't get the fine ones that will give u trouble...
Most of them here use PFS... Which looks great too...


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I have used reddish blasting sand .
Was very heavy and fine grained.
I had issues with compaction and some fishes did seem to get wierd skin rashes /injuries upon scraping against it.
I replaced it with a nice 3-4mm rounded black gravel .



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Dial92 said:
the only problem with silica sand is it will suck up in your filter and ruin it because it is so light of a sand. blasting sand you have to make sure there is no glass in the variety you want some have glass in them.
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My experience has been the opposite. My pfs is heavy. Even if I get some in the syphon when cleaning, it drops back down.

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Have any landscape supply / rock yard places nearby? They usually have a good selection of sand in different mesh sizes.
 
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