adding sand from St. Petersburg Beach

You dont like the UV light ? what do you find it kills?
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"Billy" wrote in message
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"LARRY KIMBLEY II" wrote in message
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|I am tired of paying out the butt for live sand! I live near St.
Petersburg
| Fl and would like to collect sand and live rock from there. I have
checked
| red tide conditions and that is not a problem. I also know to
rinse the LR
| and LS I collect very well. I have some coral and fish in a 125
gallon
| tank. Will this hurt my tank?
| P.S. I filter with a wet to dry, UV light, and Protein skimmer.
|
|

I would quarantine tha sand for a while myself due to the risk of
introducing nasties. Also, unless the temperature of the water is
somewhat close to that of your tank, many of the microbes and
bacteria will die off anyway. (never been to Florida, and not sure of
the NSW stats)
As far as the wetdry, most reefers agree that wetdrys with
bio-balls or similar are a poor choice due to their nitrate
production tendancies. If you get enough LS and LR, you won't need
any "artificial" biological filtration anyway. Also, I'd lose the UV,
it's counterproductive in a reef tank. The UV will kill critters you
want to encourage.

What kind of skimmer? I just got a new Euro-Reef, had to brag