Tahitian Moon Sand?

[tehauthority]

This looks like the best sand I've found as far as looks go.. I like it a lot,,, but it says not so great for bottom dwellers, does this mean no Snowflake eel??? I want some great looking sand and this looks like it, but I'm not sure wheter or not to purchase yet or not? Also, I have a 29g, that will be my saltwater is 20lb's enough for the tank?

 

[tropicalwaters]

I am not sure how the sand looks like, but usually fine sand is good for snails, cucumbers etc that clean the sand. Do the say what size grains they are?

 

[tehauthority]

not to sure,,,, ive not really found a good website for anything yet...


ive been using marinedepot.com

seems to be ok?

 

[SkiFletch]

Well its not aragonite, and the grain size is a little big. I dont know much about eels, but I would use caution when choosing this stuff.

 

[Musho3210]

im no expert (wait until lynden or andy comes) but im pretty sure 29 gallons is way too small for a snowflake eel.

 

[tehauthority]

i believe so too, right now I have a freshwater one in my 29,,, and hes a bout 15" long,,, and he seems to liike it ,, eats a bunch and loves his caves, and when the lights go off, he swims around with a smile on his face... but when I do saltwater,, I think a eel is out of the question for me,,, I plan on having the 29, being my first tank and all just be a nano reef with some clowns etc... and then later on down the road do a 75 or so.. =]

 

[Musho3210]

that would be a very smart idea IMO

Btw, what part of illinois are you from? Chicago area?

 

[tehauthority]

yea,,, one of the small towns near aurora, if you know where that is,,, naperville area kind of... I found a VERY VERY nice LFS btw, the other day called Reef Plus in aurora,, ,strictly saltwater, very cheap, and the guy is very noligable.. <-- spelled that wrong? but yea... he carries a TON of everything and has a lot of very unique live and fiji rock. also very nice,,, one of the guys that just THROWs things in with your order

 

[Musho3210]

cool, check out rods reef, im pretty sure his store is near you, its in dekalb.

Heres a chicago based forum

<a href="http/www.reefcentral.com/forums/forumdis...amp;forumid=180" target="_blank">http/www.reefcentral.com/forums/forumdis...amp;forumid=180</a>

Im up in evanston

If you ever need something, you could always come up and i could set you up with a xenia frag or clove polyp frag for free, once you set up your tank though lol

 

[tehauthority]

very cool, i was checking out the website,,, havent really looked at pics yet, but thats in dekalb, about 1/2 hour from me... ill have to check it out sometime, btw if u havent been to Reef Plus, I recommend.. how far is evanston??? have anything you wanna sell?

 

[Musho3210]

evanston is just north of the chicago border, near rogers park. 1/2 an hour is nothing when you get more involved in the hobby, you'll find yourself taking around a 2 hour drive just to go to anotehr reefers house just so that you can look at their tank and get one small, tiny free frag....

 

[tehauthority]

lol i cant wait until that day,,, hey man btw,,, just wondering i dont know why im just directly asking u,, but i dont know if uve read the 29 GALLON COMING ALONG NICELY thread, that has a lot of replies but the " Tunze Osmolator 3155 " thing he has... what exactly is that? and why does it have like 2 10gallon tnaks its going into, it looks ridiculously expesnive and at the same time I WANT ONE

 

[SkiFletch]

Its an autotopoff system

 

[Musho3210]

its an auto top of system using an optical sensor primary and a float valve as a back up, as opposed to other ATOs (auto top offs) which use 2 float valves.

More expensive than most ATO's, but very reliable, and i love mine...