Hallo forum!
This hobby has gotten expensive.
I wanted to sandbed all four of the tanks I'm going to be setting up - I used a sand calculator and it told me that I'll need roughly 175lbs of sand to give me a 2.5" sandbed on all four (give or take)
I was going to use Caribsea Aragonite Special Grade, which I used before, but it'll cost me just under £200.
Ouch.
I wondered if anyone had experience with/opinions on laying a bed of Aquanatural Oolitic Aragonite and capping it with the Caribsea.
A lot of reviews and discussion have people mention that it's really cloudy even after rinsing and that it never really settles/always clouds up when something's moved. A couple of people have said it's more silt than sand because the grains are so fine.
It's cheaper than the Caribsea though, and I thought it could help me reduce the cost a little and reduce the cloudiness issue. I'm just not sure about what will happen when the coarser sand lays on the finer sand, if that's a recipe for disaster or something that might work
I'd love to hear your opinions and experiences!
Thank you!
This hobby has gotten expensive.
I wanted to sandbed all four of the tanks I'm going to be setting up - I used a sand calculator and it told me that I'll need roughly 175lbs of sand to give me a 2.5" sandbed on all four (give or take)
I was going to use Caribsea Aragonite Special Grade, which I used before, but it'll cost me just under £200.
Ouch.
I wondered if anyone had experience with/opinions on laying a bed of Aquanatural Oolitic Aragonite and capping it with the Caribsea.
A lot of reviews and discussion have people mention that it's really cloudy even after rinsing and that it never really settles/always clouds up when something's moved. A couple of people have said it's more silt than sand because the grains are so fine.
It's cheaper than the Caribsea though, and I thought it could help me reduce the cost a little and reduce the cloudiness issue. I'm just not sure about what will happen when the coarser sand lays on the finer sand, if that's a recipe for disaster or something that might work
I'd love to hear your opinions and experiences!
Thank you!