sugar sand = problems?

[SeaSerpant]

would sugar sand hurt any fish because i want that kind but i don't know if it's bad for gobies and stuff?

[Pan]

Only real problem with sugar sand is it gets blown arund so easy, with sugar sand and any sifter or bottom dweller the sand will always be in your water column.

[justinl]

Originally Posted by 'Ol Nobodaddy

Only real problem with sugar sand is it gets blown arund so easy, with sugar sand and any sifter or bottom dweller the sand will always be in your water column.

I didn't really experience any of that with my tank. If a large wrasse decides to go on a digging expedition sure it will kick up sand, but it is far from always in the column... sometimes would be a better word. Be sure to rinse the sand vigorously before hand to get rid of the smallest particles.

if you have a sand sifter/dweller you shouldnt have anything but oolitic sand anyways. BB might be okay for most benthic dwellers, but anything more coarse than oolitic calcium based sand would rip up sifters.

[Pan]

Originally Posted by justinl

I didn't really experience any of that with my tank. If a large wrasse decides to go on a digging expedition sure it will kick up sand, but it is far from always in the column... sometimes would be a better word. Be sure to rinse the sand vigorously before hand to get rid of the smallest particles.

if you have a sand sifter/dweller you shouldnt have anything but oolitic sand anyways. BB might be okay for most benthic dwellers, but anything more coarse than oolitic calcium based sand would rip up sifters.

Yeah, was just saying if you had sand sifters it would be in the water column....with a lot of flow...i(combine the two, should have been clearer)

[Skimmerking]

CC is not a good sand for sifters like cukes, wrasses that like to bury them selves. I used SEA CHEM Select. its .5-1.0 mm I love it there is not hardy any sand dust in the sand that makes thesand very silty if you know what I mean, like stated before rinse the sand good in water and then put it in your tank..


god luck

[SeaSerpant]

wouldn't the sand get in the sand sifters gills or would it matter?

[sharuq1]

That is basically how they eat. they take in mouthfuls of sand and "sift" it through and out of their gills. That is why oolitic sand is nice. It is not so coarse as to hurt them and it is not teeny weeny either.

[SeaSerpant]

so sugar sand or oolitic sand are both good sand for a tank. does anyone one have any pictures of oolitic sand? are oolitic sand and sugar sand the basic same thing?

[sharuq1]

http://www.fish.com/itemdy00.asp?T1=710019%20003

[sharuq1]

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2005/2/short