How to calculate the quantity of sand to need?

[Jean]

Hello,
Where can I find the way to calculate the quantity of sand I need?
The "beach" sand takes how much volume?
And how sand weight?
For example, it says on a bag 7Kg.
How much bags I need to buy?

[Nikki Casali]

Jean wrote:
> Hello,
> Where can I find the way to calculate the quantity of sand I need?
> The "beach" sand takes how much volume?
> And how sand weight?
> For example, it says on a bag 7Kg.
> How much bags I need to buy?

I have some "beach sand" that seems to weigh 1.76 times the volume. So
7Kg would occupy about 4 litres.

Nikki

[Dick]

On 6 Jan 2005 13:45:39 -0800, (Jean) wrote:

>Hello,
>Where can I find the way to calculate the quantity of sand I need?
>The "beach" sand takes how much volume?
>And how sand weight?
>For example, it says on a bag 7Kg.
>How much bags I need to buy?

Amount is not a straight calculation. Some personal preference is
involved. If you are going to plant live plants more sand is needed
as roots will need room to spread. I have a quarantine tank with no
sand at all, easier to keep clean, but I still have live plants
anchored with lead weights. I just move the plants to another tank if
I need to treat a fish.

If your tankscaping is going to have open gravel up front you may want
to slope the sand making it deeper in the back.

I put 100 lbs of sand in my 75 gallon tank, but would probably put 150
in today if I did it over.

dick

[Steve Hampton]

Jean wrote:
> Hello,
> Where can I find the way to calculate the quantity of sand I need?
> The "beach" sand takes how much volume?
> And how sand weight?
> For example, it says on a bag 7Kg.
> How much bags I need to buy?
Here's a wonderful little substrate calculator...it works for Flourite,
Eco-Complete, Regular Gravel, and Silica Sand.

http://www.plantedtank.net/substratecalculator.html

[Richard]

>> Where can I find the way to calculate the quantity of sand I need?
>> The "beach" sand takes how much volume?
>> And how sand weight?
>> For example, it says on a bag 7Kg.
>> How much bags I need to buy?
>Here's a wonderful little substrate calculator...it works for Flourite,
>Eco-Complete, Regular Gravel, and Silica Sand.
>
>http://www.plantedtank.net/substratecalculator.html


Even quicker: 1 lb per gallon for thin substrate, 2 lbs per gallon for deep
substrate.

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