Live Sand, $10 a pound!

reefnewbie54321 · 05/15/2006, 07:27 PM

Anyone ever used this super expensive sand? I really like all the stuff I have bought from Inland Aquatics but I'm not sure about $10 a pound!

http://www.inlandaquatics.com/prod/tr_invert.html

What's the best live sand you ever bought (not for the price but for the biodiversity)

Ron Shimek recommends Bills Reef live sand

IPSF Sand Seed pack is recommended a lot also

I used LFS sand on my 1st tank which had pretty much no life and Garf Grunge on my other tank which had no life either at least what I could see ... It was better then the stuff I got from my LFS

DaveG99 · 05/15/2006, 07:54 PM

Thats outrageous! Just get a scoop from a fellow reefer and throw it in our tank and it will spread.

reefnewbie54321 · 05/15/2006, 07:58 PM

Last time I did a sand swap I ended up with a bunch of clumped sand. Its always worth a second shot though.

fantastic4 · 05/15/2006, 11:33 PM

The absolute best live sand I have ever seen was at Jeff's Exotic fish (back when he had only one store near Torrance). It was as if Jeff moved live sand like selling cans of soda, Jeff must of had 2 or 3 large shipmenst of sand each week directly flown in from some exotic island. When I bought the stuff, way back when I was new to this hobby and had nothing to compare it to. This sand had at least a dozen brittle stars in every handfull that you could see with your own eye. The sand was practically moving. Anyways, that was years ago, not sure if the quality is the same now. It really gave meaning to the word "live"

Now when I walk into most LFS around my area, the sand just looks like some dry sand just dumped into saltwater the night before, without a microscope you will never know how live the sand is.

reefnewbie54321 · 05/16/2006, 05:12 AM

Yeah alot of LFS sand is crap

05/15/2006, 07:27 PM	#1
reefnewbie54321 Moved On Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Boston Posts: 1,263	Live Sand, $10 a pound! Anyone ever used this super expensive sand? I really like all the stuff I have bought from Inland Aquatics but I'm not sure about $10 a pound! http://www.inlandaquatics.com/prod/tr_invert.html What's the best live sand you ever bought (not for the price but for the biodiversity) Ron Shimek recommends Bills Reef live sand IPSF Sand Seed pack is recommended a lot also I used LFS sand on my 1st tank which had pretty much no life and Garf Grunge on my other tank which had no life either at least what I could see ... It was better then the stuff I got from my LFS

05/15/2006, 07:54 PM	#2
DaveG99 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Forney Texas Posts: 1,597	Thats outrageous! Just get a scoop from a fellow reefer and throw it in our tank and it will spread.

05/15/2006, 07:58 PM	#3
reefnewbie54321 Moved On Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Boston Posts: 1,263	Last time I did a sand swap I ended up with a bunch of clumped sand. Its always worth a second shot though.

05/15/2006, 11:33 PM	#4
fantastic4 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 662	The absolute best live sand I have ever seen was at Jeff's Exotic fish (back when he had only one store near Torrance). It was as if Jeff moved live sand like selling cans of soda, Jeff must of had 2 or 3 large shipmenst of sand each week directly flown in from some exotic island. When I bought the stuff, way back when I was new to this hobby and had nothing to compare it to. This sand had at least a dozen brittle stars in every handfull that you could see with your own eye. The sand was practically moving. Anyways, that was years ago, not sure if the quality is the same now. It really gave meaning to the word "live" Now when I walk into most LFS around my area, the sand just looks like some dry sand just dumped into saltwater the night before, without a microscope you will never know how live the sand is.

05/16/2006, 05:12 AM	#5
reefnewbie54321 Moved On Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Boston Posts: 1,263	Yeah alot of LFS sand is crap