What’s Your Favorite Sand?
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Kensington Reefer
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CaribSea sea floor special
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I have used three types of sand: CaribSea Special Grade, Reef Flakes, and Aquaforest Bio Sand. The AF is by far my favorite. It holds up better to high flow than the CaribSea despite being smaller grain, does not grow algae unlike the larger Reef Flakes, and is gleaming white in color. Here is a thread I wrote along with pictures:
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I have had the sand in my tank for two years now and the sand still looks wonderful.
Aquaforest Bio Sand --- Super Bright White Sand!
I started my 8 month old tank with CaribSea Special Grade but got tired of rearranging the sand every morning due to flow form my two MP40s. I switched to Tropic Eden Reef Flakes which both looked nice initially and did not move due to the larger grain size. Unfortunately, after about six...
www.reef2reef.com
I have had the sand in my tank for two years now and the sand still looks wonderful.
Alexander1312
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I would have voted for Carib sea special grade which I have, but that Aquaforest sand looks very nice.
I assume nothing weird coming through ICP?
Only downside I can see is that if you add live sand for biodiversity which I do on a 6 months basis it might look odd with this clean looking sand.
I assume nothing weird coming through ICP?
Only downside I can see is that if you add live sand for biodiversity which I do on a 6 months basis it might look odd with this clean looking sand.
I have had the sand in my tank for 20 months now and haven’t noticed anything odd in the ICP test. I agree that live sand (from the ocean) can look fantastic. I spent a lot of time looking at threads and videos on the Tampa Bay Saltwater live sand and almost went that route since some of the videos looked amazing.
