Fiji pink live sand question

[Denisk]

I have been running barebottom for over a year but the tank is around 2 years old. Since moving into our house and having this tank go into our formal living. I decided I wanted to add sand back.

I have a bag of live sand that is going to expire in 12/18. I want to go ahead and use it and not be wasteful so should I rinse this sand anyways, not rinse it at all, add it slowly over the course of a week. The reason I ask is because if it was dry sand, it’d be easy for me but bc it’s live I know there will be some die off in the bag.

Any advice would be helpful. Thanks.

 

[PDR]

I may be wrong but I was under the impression that live sand was just normal sand kept wet with added bacteria, not anything that would really die off. That being said, I would still rinse it to prevent the dust storm.

 

[Denisk]

I may be wrong but I was under the impression that live sand was just normal sand kept wet with added bacteria, not anything that would really die off. That being said, I would still rinse it to prevent the dust storm.

Yeah that’s why I was curious bc if you rinse it with water anything live I’m assuming would die off. Maybe I’ll just rinse it and wing it. Always a way of doing things

 

[starypotter]

I've seen many people say that there's really nothing 'live' about those sands anyway. And the bag says you don't need to rinse them so I'd just maybe put in half and check your levels before putting in the rest if it were me.