Sand - CaribSea Fiji Pink or Special Grade Reef - which do you use?

[salty150]

Keep going round-and-round between CaribSea Fiji Pink or Special Grade Reef.

Like the smaller grain size of the Fiji Pink - put worried it will get blown around by the power heads.

What sand does everyone here use and like?

 

[vtecintegra]

Special grade by a mile.

 

[bushdoc]

Ocean Live sand from TBS for my 30 gal Caribbean theme tank and bear bottom for my 120 mixed reef.

 

[salty150]

Special grade by a mile.

Yeah... that is the one I am leaning towards.

Just to be safe.

 

[LilElroyJetson]

Keep going round-and-round between CaribSea Fiji Pink or Special Grade Reef.

Like the smaller grain size of the Fiji Pink - put worried it will get blown around by the power heads.

What sand does everyone here use and like?

How has the Special Grade been for your tank? How deep is your tank and how much flow?

I want sand and I’m leaning special grade because my tank is 16” deep and I’ll be trying to get solid flow out of 2 MP40s for SPS but worried the sand will prevent me from dialing it up in such a shallow tank. Bare bottom isn’t totally out of the question but I’d really like sand because I love the look of it.

 

[RedoubtReef]

Tropic Eden meso flakes. Seems to hold up really well to flow.

 

[LilElroyJetson]

Tropic Eden meso flakes. Seems to hold up really well to flow.

I’ve heard mixed reviews on this. Is that what you are using?

 

[silent1mezzo]

I used special grade for my new 75g tank and am liking it so far. I've got 2 nero 7's running at 25-75% and it stays put

 

[LilElroyJetson]

I used special grade for my new 75g tank and am liking it so far. I've got 2 nero 7's running at 25-75% and it stays put

That’s helpful to know. How deep is your tank? Would love to see a photo. How easily does the sand tumble to clean when siphoning?

 

[RedoubtReef]

I’ve heard mixed reviews on this. Is that what you are using?

Yep. I had Caribsea Indo-pacific in the past and mesoflake holds up to flow better so far. I'm only running one of MP40s right now and when I cranked it up to see what would happen after putting the sand in a month ago, it held up pretty well.

 

[silent1mezzo]

That’s helpful to know. How deep is your tank? Would love to see a photo. How easily does the sand tumble to clean when siphoning?

It's 21" tall. It's only had water in it for a couple weeks so I haven't cleaned the gravel yet.

 

[codenfx]

Special grade. It's just perfect to me.

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

I've got a mix of the two. If I did it again, I'd probably go bare bottom. However, if you have to chose, special grade will absolutely be the better option.

 

[exnisstech]

I just finished removing most of my Figi pink and replacing it with special grade. I have sps and quite a bit of flow and the Fiji pink didn't cut it. Barebottom is my choice but I wanted to add a blue carpet nem so I had to add some sand.