Black Sand Floating

[Crysta]

dodgy eBay sellers (N).

Most "aquarium" sand is brilliant, the only problem with some of it is that there can be 'bigger' bits.]
it's mainly the sand branded 'reptile' that you need to watch out for because of calcium ect, which is beneficial to the reptiles
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[JWERNER]

Thanks for the quick reply but that doesn't really tell me a lot about the instant aquarium stuff, looking on the caribsea site it seems its identical apart from being supplied in the bag "wet" and preloaded with dechlorinator and other bits and bobs to skip the cycling process on new tanks apparently.

Either way i'd be washing it so i doubt it makes a difference.

Plus this stuff seems to be more expensive than the standard super naturals brand so if its ok to use it i will and its tough! (had a bit of trouble with the seller from the start)

Super Naturals is not its own brand name. It is a product line that Tahitian moon falls under made by Carib Sea.

The fact you got Instant Aquarium means its been cycled as you know.

Its the same exact stuff just cultured with bio organisms. Make sure to rinse it good just in case he pawned it off cause of an expired shelf life. I personally dont use pre-cycled/live sand cause I cant find why it would be immune to fouling brought by the conditions of the aging bag just as it would crash in our aquarium in similar circumstances.

For those of you who do keep reptiles, and/or are thinking of it in the future, Calci-Sand really is evil. The powdery calcium particulates can cause eye problems, and it actually sand encourages ingestion in species like leopard geckos who might eat the sand to add calcium to their diet if there's not enough calcium available to them, and the additives in the sand make GI impaction a lot more likely. The sand clumps more readily in their tummies than play-sand would (and they might have been eating more of it to get calcium), and this often proves fatal. With such problems so well documented, I don't even know how they're able to turn a profit on the stuff any more.

Very true. The stuff is really bad. It can also cause black lung disease by inhaling the constant dust this stuff produces ( like coal miners ) which I think is the worst reason yet.