Yea I'm not a big fan of that bagged live sand that has
been sitting in a hot warehouse. What I do, is sell
customers dry calcium sand for 10.19 for 20 pound bag, and
if they want live sand, I've got the same sand in fish
bags in the sump with live rock with a date on it showing
when it was put in. After it's been there for a few
months, it's got lots of life in it. I tell the customers
to put the dry sand in the tank, and then seed it with
some of the live sand. That sure beats waisting money on
the warehouse live sand. I pulled one out one day, and a 3
inch shrimp jumped out of the sand. Now that's live sand :-)

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Pszemol wrote on 9/18/2006 10:23 AM:
"Wilbur Slice" wrote in message
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I've bought live rock and live sand from Tampa Bay Sal****er in
Florida on two occasions. They grab it from the ocean and I think
they might store if for a couple days in holding tanks at their
facility, but then they box it up in the morning and put it on a
flight to Minneapolis, and that afternoon I go to the airport and pick
it up from the freight desk and take it home and put it in my tank
less than 24 hours after it was taken from the ocean (or from their
holding tanks).

And the rock was literally crawling with all sorts of great critters
and sponges and corals and all kinds of things. Great stuff, and I've
always been very pleased with their service and their quality.

And this is the way it should be. There is really no reason to pay big
bucks for a dead wet sand in the bag at LFS.
But the most of the customers do not know better... unfortunatelly.
And the label on the bag is misleading - another dishonest snake oil.