Relatively clean/large grain sands

[LordJoshaeus]

Hello everyone! My sister's 5 gallon has perfect parameters, yet its corals and other sessile life are not doing very well. The reason? Sand. I forget which brand of live sand I bought for it, but it's so fine and dusty that it keeps partially burying everything in the tank. This tank is going to need a redo at some point...I would just do bare bottom, but there's a pistol shrimp and a Wheeler's shrimp goby in there. Are there any sands - live or otherwise - that aren't so fine and aren't as prone to burying things? Thanks

 

[Water Dog]

Grab some Caribsea special grade.

 

[Idoc]

Look into Tropic Eden sand.... very clean, different sizes available... just another option.

 

[pecan2phat]

Look into Tropic Eden sand.... very clean, different sizes available... just another option.

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Tropic Eden has like 4~5 different grain sizes that you can purchase and it's very clean compared to Carib Sea sand when rinsing.

 

[Water Dog]

For my nano tank I thought the Caribsea special grade was more than adequate. For my bigger tank, where flow will be really cranked up, I prefer Tropic Eden Reef Flakes.

 

[LordJoshaeus]

OK! Thanks