Live sand in a plastic bag?

i think its more for looks,it is great looking sand and has some beneficial
bacteria

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Recently my LFS introduced new product - I noticed on their shelfs
live aragonite in a big, plastic bag, inside: wet sand...

What is it exactly? How much life could survive in a sealed bag?
Are there only anaerobic bacteria? I doubt anything else survived
weeks of shelf storage in this kind of conditions...
Have you tried it already?

BTW - if is it a real sand from an ocean bottom, how do they pack
it to not smell killing anybody opens the bag with a terrible stench?