Southdown tropical play sand

"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message ...
If you through a penny in your reef tank, bacteria will
grow over it. So does that bacteria prevent the copper
from dissolving into the water?

Answer: no

Bacteria will not grow over penny, because copper is toxic.

The sand from P'cola to Panama City, FL is the whitest sands found
anywhere the world.......Its just like pure grains of sugar so fine
and so brite they just beg to be used in aquariums.......In the right
places you may get a mix of some coral & shell frags etc mixed with
the sands.

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:51:34 -0600, RicSeyler
wrote:


Wayne Sallee wrote:

Has this idea been tested in low oxygen areas deep in the sand?

Also what about things that eat the sand, like sea cucumbers.

What we have here is (Pensacola Beach) Silica Based Sand and all our
wild critters seem happy..
Pure White, I mean pure white!! It even squeaks when you walk on it. :-)

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The silica sand does bring a worry to me though. the methods as which
it is farmed places etc. Like kids play sand is meant for a sand box
so the company placing it on the shelf is only gonna look after the
toxicity levels of human children and featherd furry wildlife that
happens into it. Silica sand is found in many areas some of which may
have various levels of metal within the sand itself. Am I worring to
much?

"AverageSchmuck" wrote in message ...
The silica sand does bring a worry to me though. the methods as which
it is farmed places etc. Like kids play sand is meant for a sand box
so the company placing it on the shelf is only gonna look after the
toxicity levels of human children and featherd furry wildlife that
happens into it. Silica sand is found in many areas some of which may
have various levels of metal within the sand itself. Am I worring to
much?

The southdown sand everybody is using is meant to be used in sandbox too.

sorry Pszemol but the Southdown was explained as argonite based while
I was asking in reference to silica based


On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:11:20 -0600, "Pszemol"
wrote:

"AverageSchmuck" wrote in message ...
The silica sand does bring a worry to me though. the methods as which
it is farmed places etc. Like kids play sand is meant for a sand box
so the company placing it on the shelf is only gonna look after the
toxicity levels of human children and featherd furry wildlife that
happens into it. Silica sand is found in many areas some of which may
have various levels of metal within the sand itself. Am I worring to
much?

The southdown sand everybody is using is meant to be used in sandbox too.

So you think that nothing will grow over a penny because
the copper is toxic?

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Pszemol wrote on 3/23/2006 7:15 PM:
"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
...
If you through a penny in your reef tank, bacteria will grow over it.
So does that bacteria prevent the copper from dissolving into the water?

Answer: no

Bacteria will not grow over penny, because copper is toxic.

"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message ...
So you think that nothing will grow over a penny because
the copper is toxic?

I would think it will be difficult for anything live
to grow over a penny... It could "rust", in the meaning
to corrode, and cover itself in some copper chemicals,
but I would guess copper is so toxic that on the surface
of a penny nothing alive would grow...
But you are more than welcome to try and share your
experience with us

"AverageSchmuck" wrote in message ...
sorry Pszemol but the Southdown was explained as argonite based while
I was asking in reference to silica based

Well, you were worried that silica sand is bagged for usage in sand boxes...
So the manufacturer would not care about anything not related to humans.
I am telling you that the same applies to Southdown sand. Yes, it is not
silica based, but it is packaged to be used in sandboxes for children to play.
Do you see the analogy ?
If you are not worried about Southdown, you should not be worried about
silica based sand... Or worry equally about both types of sand, whatever :-)

well I was focusing on the silica cause honestly I was interested in
the pro/cons between the types however I seem to be missed in
translation somewhere.. and I was asking more about silica based
because well it is what is easiest to find at places like Home Depot
etc. and the person that started thread already said they cant find
southbound and someone replied that many are looking for it etc..

Aw well I guess I was missed in translation somewhere thanks anyway
but you really helped none Psz

AverageSchmuck wrote:
Those of you that have silica type sand. Would you happen to be using
in a Deep Sand Bed environment of 3 inches or greater by chance?

I ask cause I am curious if it seems to be working out for you really
well or not. I am looking into building a Deep Sand bed type sump for
my own. Read here and their and all sources I have found all recommend
argonite type bed but none seem to mention any sort of pro/cons to
say silica or just any other material period.


I have used silica sand for a DSB aprox 5 inches without any problems,
other than having to be careful when using my cleaning magnet, the
silica is as hard as the glass and so it can scratch the glass a lot
easier than the aragonite sand will. The critters will not know the
difference, I have sand sifting cuc's and lots of little critters in the
silica sand without any problems. I purchased some silica sand
ballasting sand, I got a ver fine grit for around 10 buxs a 50 pound bag.

Kim