Sand tonight

[Prelude2Life]

Looking to go get sand for my tang shelly tank to be. Some recomend Silica Sand (cheap) and some recomend caribsea crushed aragonite (buffers)

I have a 50 gallon to outfit so the aragonite might be a bit $$ to do a bit of scaping. Also doesnt the buffers get abbsorbed over time? With the addition of Seachem is that buffer really needed?

Thanks in advance

[Mferko]

if your adding buffers then no its not really needed but the sugar sized stuff is quite a bit more fine and 'whiter'
try going to JL aquatics for a good price
if you look at some of the pics in my thread with the 3 gobies thats mostly silica sand with some of the leftover aragonite from the top tank in it too, you can see its a bit more coarse and not as white as the main tank

[FatKid]

You can get the silica sand at a pool store for $14.00 per 50 lbs...

[lidder_b]

petsmart had the 30lb bag on for 17.99 last week (aragonite sugar size grains).

[hp10BII]

If you're adding buffers like Seachem, pool filter sand will do unless you don't like the colour. Multies don't like a lot of sand, they tend to dig them up and pile it up away from their shells. An inch depth is plenty. Occies on the other hand, prefer to bury their shells so a sand depth of a couple of inches would work.