Help picking a substrate

[NakiFantaki]

Can anyone suggest what kind of sand to use for my new tank? In the past I have Tropic Eden Reeflakes and while I liked the sand I was looking at other options.
I need about 40 pounds.
What are the best sands out there?

Also thinking about dry sand as well. I was thought that live said cost a lot more but from what I am seeing, the costs are pretty much the same.

Just looking for some recommendations.

Thanks!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Fiji pink from Carib Sea.

 

[keddre]

I have pool filter sand topped with carib-alive

 

[jenkinscrew2578]

Fiji pink from Carib Sea.

+1

 

[hartin461]

+1

Just put the Fiji pink in my 180 and seems to be a good choice. Watchman goby loves it and so does my melanarus wrasse. Piled up a little extra in the back for the wrasse. I did have to pull up my flow from the power heads so it didn`t move around so much, but was easy enough.

 

[cilyjr]

The reason I like the tropic eden (mix of 2.5 and 3.0) is with the much larger powerheads used these days the sand blows around much less. So we're I to switch it would look for grain size as my primary factor

 

[brandon429]

whatever you choose, pre rinse it so that its cloudless upon setup no matter what you do to it. even if its live sand you bought/wet pack, still mass rinse it-this doesn't sterilize it. when we buy live sand, its not worms and pods, its just wet sand. you'll make it wetter by rinsing :) and you will love the zero cloud instant start.