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Posted: March 09 2012 at 6:22pm |
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I am adding a 10 gal refigium to my reef set up tomorrow. I have a questions about the sand in the refigium, does it need to be live sand? I used just your standard home depot sand to start the tank with and seeded it with live sand and used live rocks. I will use live rubble rock in the sump but do not have any live sand and was wondering if I could just use the non live sand from HD in the sump and let it liven up?
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Posted: March 09 2012 at 10:06pm |
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It does not need to be live the other sand in the tank will make it live. I would be concerned with using sand from HD though. Who knows whats in it and what it could leach into your tank.
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Posted: March 11 2012 at 9:43am |
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There once was a type of reef safe sand at HD, I think it was called Southdown, but the regular play and leveling sand has way too much Silicate and yes, who knows what else in it. Utah Oolitic sand is safe - there's posts about it here somewhere, just takes a drive out to the west side of the Great Salt Lake. With the weather as nice as it's been and is going to be today, I bet you could drive out there very soon, if not already!
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Posted: March 11 2012 at 10:49am |
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Sand isn't really that expensive, just buy the right stuff and don't be cheap about it.
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Posted: March 11 2012 at 11:29am |
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I got a 30 lb bag of carib from Petsmart for like 15$. Make sure you get the stuff that doesn't need to be buffered but the actual reef sand.
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40 gal w/ 20 sump
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Posted: March 11 2012 at 6:43pm |
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What does high levels of silicate do to your tank?
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Posted: March 11 2012 at 8:16pm |
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Diatom blooms. Diatom bodies are made of silica, it's like calcium for corals.
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40 gal w/ 20 sump
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Posted: March 12 2012 at 12:20am |
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Okay so before I finished reading this on sat I got to excited to have a sumpgoing and i went ahead and used play sand .. But my water has been for lack of a better word milky ever sense. Would this be due to the play sand? I did rinse it out good ect and I am planning on changing it out tomorrow either way after reading this however just wondering if that's what's causing in the milky water?
Edited by xessive force - March 12 2012 at 12:23am
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Posted: March 12 2012 at 8:05am |
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Yes that sand will make your water very cloudy =(
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