sand

I personally have only used gravel in my tanks. Ive never used sand before. I would like to get the opinion of some other keepers. 1. Does sand cause more damage to your impellers? 2. Does sand really help with nitrates and nitrites due to waste not getting down in it? 3. Do the cichlids enjoy...

Alright ya'll for the since starting my tanks I have only put sand in one and it was a nightmare. The stuff was too fine and kept the water cloudy as it wouldnt settle got in the filter and then would work its way back through the coarse sponges of the filters and right back into the water to...

I have a 200 gallon tank I am getting ready to fill with some breeding groups of peacock cichlids. I am new to the concept of sand I have always used gravel in my tanks and did fine, would there be that big of a difference in the amount of fry I get out of my fish if I used sand instead? Sent...

Hi everyone, I have for sale the following items. We are near Arundel Mills but may be willing to meet at another location if that is too far. Thanks for looking! Approx. 150 pounds of red lava rocks (20 x 1 hole, 13 x 2 hole, 8 x 3 hole, 11 x no hole base rocks - enough for a 125 gallon...

How do you clean white sand. My led's make the tank look yellow. Is it the sand or is it the LED'S

Hi, I have a 50G mbuna tank setup with rocks, wood and sand substrate. My problem is that I keep getting really strong algae growths in my sand and a lot of trapped air. It looks like nice health green algae so shouldn't cause health problems but around my rocks the growths are really bad red...

Can I use live reef sand with marine bacteria in my cichlid tank? Sent from my iPhone using MonsterAquariaNetwork app

i have a 5 gallon bucket 3/4 full of this stuff. iv reaquascaped and this is for sale for 15.00. it covered my 225's bottomat about 1 1/2"-2" deep. i can bring to the meeting.

Probobly enought o do a 20g - http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/zip/2864527553.html Black Fish Tank Sand, 20 lbs. of CaribSea Tahitian Moon (Gaithersburg) Date: 2012-02-22, 8:59AM EST Reply to: cf9t6-2864527553@sale.craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] I used this sand...

So im trting to get my first sand bottom tank going. And the water doesnt seem to want to settle. Its not a new tank ive had it running for almost a year but we decided to move some stock and it opened this tank up. Well i decided i wanted to try sand. We poured it in an almost empty tank, and...

So ive been thining of changing from gravel to sand but i have several live plants. Will they do as well? Ive never used anything but gravel in any of my tanks. And does it provide any better bio support. Sent from my PG86100 using MonsterAquariaNetwork App

So I need some help with the setup of my 29 gallon. I did a 3d back ground and its finaly cured. I'm going to be putting 6 or so pseudotropheus williamsi north in the tank. I can't decide if I should put gravel or sand in there...gravel for me is easier to clean, I have sand in my 80 gal and its...

I have a bunch of pool filter sand that is from my 300g tank, probably 200lbs? Free for pickup only in greencastle pa 7173722095

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/zip/2533086263.html

I picked up some Geo altifrons at ACA and there was Carib sand in the club storeroom for sale does anyone know if there is more available or does anyone have any extra they would like to sell.

I am looking for some inexpensive black sand. What are good types and can be found locally? I heard black 3m colorquartz t-grade were good but was discontinued. Thanks for any help

So upon researching the species i found that a sandy substrate is recommended. The tank i was working on for them has an under gravel filter and a ton of rocks on top. The actual gravel is mostly gravel i got from a creek and sterilized. The under gravel filter isn't the only filtration (also...

I want some black sand a lot of black sand. I have SMS to trade.

so im looking at getting a 125 gallon tank and I really dont want to send the money on gravel since it cost so much. so i was looking at sand. i here good and bad about sand so whats ur opinion

I recently saw some beautiful green olivine sand in a museum, and it was very fine grained. Since it's volcanic in origin, I think it would be inert and therefore perfect for an aquarium. Can't find any on the Web, however. Anyone ever seen this in an aquarium? Any ideas where I could find some?