Sand Recommendations For Reef Tank?

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Hi everyone! I'm currently looking into new sand for my reef aquarium. Does anyone have good sand/reef sand store recommendations? Thanks!
 

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Carib Sea Arag Alive - that's always a good live option.

It does depend on what you want to do though?

High flow tanks will benefit from a more coarse sand mix with larger, more heavy grains/particles.
 

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I use the caribsea fiji pink live sand. In areas where my power heads were blowing the sand around, I added caribsea crushed coral and that worked out well.
 

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Barebottom here except I had to add sand to one tank because I wanted a hoddoni I saw at a lfs. I used Figi pink and it is too fine and get blown around too much. I'm in the process of switching it out to arag alive, it has much larger grains than the pink.
 

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Caribsea Special Grade is one of the most popular. It is small enough for sand sifters and burrowing fish, but big enough to not get blown around by your pumps/powerheads. If you have a deep tank or low flow, then maybe it's not much of an issue but if it's shallower and/or high flow, fine sand can be a pita.
 

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Tropic eden reef flakes/ meso flakes. Beautiful uniform sandbed that all my sand dewlling critters love and doesnt blow around.
 

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