my dad works at HD in red deer, he says the minimum order would be a truck full of sand, but if enough people are interested, we may be able to influence his store to bring in some. you'd have to drive to red deer to get it, or i could probably bring it to you, but it might be worthwhile.

I am frequently in Red Deer and the trip would be worth it. Do you know how many bags a truckload would be and for how much they would sell it? I would most certainly be in for a bunch of bags!

If the bags are cheep I would want some as well.
Any idea on what they would cost???

1. How much would a truckfull be? I'm rather afraid of that. One single pallet is already a lot of sand, if we're talking about 2-3 pallets .... uhoh. :shock:

2. What would the cost per bag be? We need to look at this one. Cost of shipping is not going to be trivial .... unless HD somehow swallows the cost of shipping and lets us have one incredible deal ... ?

3. Failing this, I think we should still look at the SWC pallet. We should support our Canuck retailers, it is very nice sand, and cheap. I'd consider doing the pallet thing again, but I would feel a whole lot better about it if there is for certainty a minimum amount of interest .... it's not fun to move immediately say, 10 bags, and then sit on the remaining 50 bags as they slowly get bought up. This is a minimum $1000 investment we're talking about here..

my dad doesn't think it's possible but will look into it. i also told him to try to find out where their standard Target sand comes from and what is in it. Someone on Reef Central said you can place an order directly from the company in Florida that bags the stuff, as long as you don't mention aquariums to them, we could almost order it ourselves and sell it to LFSs across Canada. you can ship stuff like that via freight companies for very good rates (versus air or courier). i'll keep you all posted, as i'm almost ready to go get sand out of Sylvan Lake.

As a matter of interest I would say a truckload is probably five tons. I don't know what that would be in Tonnes, but probably a hell of a lot. :D :D

1 ton (us/short) = 0.907185 ton (metric) = 0.892857 ton (UK/long) ***spelt the same :wink: ***


Steve

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