mixing coral sand and aquarium sand? feasible ?i bought coral stones for my fres

jusabuketin · November 26th, 2008

i bought coral stones for my fresh water aquarium. My aquarium curently has catfish for my project.

So my question is if coral stone really unsuitable for freshwater? If not, izzit feasible if i mix the coral stone and freshwater stone together so as to prevent the high increase of pH? or is dere any better solutions beside throwing the coral stone aside.

any advice will be much appreciated.

Angela_96 · November 26th, 2008

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Originally Posted by jusabuketin

i bought coral stones for my fresh water aquarium. My aquarium curently has catfish for my project.

So my question is if coral stone really unsuitable for freshwater? If not, izzit feasible if i mix the coral stone and freshwater stone together so as to prevent the high increase of pH? or is dere any better solutions beside throwing the coral stone aside.

any advice will be much appreciated.

That will raise your ph. I purposely use crushed corals in my cichild tanks for a substrate to raise my ph, it does, to 8.0

not to mention, it will mess w/ the alkilinity of your water (hardness)

cerianthus · November 26th, 2008

Depends on what kind of project.
Not suitable for most of fresh water tropical fish except fish from hard, alkaline water.

capekate · November 27th, 2008

I would also be very careful with the coral when keeping catfish, as they can get injured by the rough coral. They really should have smooth gravel or sand.

jusabuketin · November 27th, 2008

hi.thxs for the advice =D
may i know if it feasible to mix smalll percentage of coral sand and large percentage of smooth sand together. will it harm the fish? cause i do not want to throw the coral sand aside.

capekate · November 27th, 2008

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Originally Posted by jusabuketin

hi.thxs for the advice =D
may i know if it feasible to mix smalll percentage of coral sand and large percentage of smooth sand together. will it harm the fish? cause i do not want to throw the coral sand aside.

If it is actually coral sand you have and not coral stones as mentioned in your above post, then I would say yes you can mix the two sands together. I would monitor the PH through tests tho.
Is there any way you can return the coral stones? Or know of some one with a SW tank that can use it and may want to buy it off of you?

Angela_96 · November 27th, 2008

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Originally Posted by capekate

If it is actually coral sand you have and not coral stones as mentioned in your above post, then I would say yes you can mix the two sands together. I would monitor the PH through tests tho.
Is there any way you can return the coral stones? Or know of some one with a SW tank that can use it and may want to buy it off of you?

If its coral sand it will raise the ph, the agronite sand has right on the bag the "will raise ph". Thats what I use to mix w/ crushed coral in my cichlid tanks.

jusabuketin · November 27th, 2008

thxs alot for the advice again =] i think i will try out mixing the sand and test out the pH.

any recommendation on which sand i should get to mix the coral sand ? shoud i get sand that are neutral and inert ? what are the sand tat have such properties?

Angela_96 · November 27th, 2008

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Originally Posted by jusabuketin

thxs alot for the advice again =] i think i will try out mixing the sand and test out the pH.

any recommendation on which sand i should get to mix the coral sand ? shoud i get sand that are neutral and inert ? what are the sand tat have such properties?

The coral in the tank will still cause the ph to rise. It doesn't matter if you mix it with sand.

jusabuketin · November 28th, 2008

hm ok. i think i will not use the coral sand.

may i know wat are examples of inert sand that give goof filtration result ? plain silica sand ?

Angela_96 · November 28th, 2008

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Originally Posted by jusabuketin

hm ok. i think i will not use the coral sand.

may i know wat are examples of inert sand that give goof filtration result ? plain silica sand ?

There are a lot of people who will get sand from home depot and lowes for fish tanks (pool filter sand). Any sand at the LFS that is not marine sand or african cichlid sand is good.

jusabuketin · November 28th, 2008

hey thxs . just to clear my doubts cause i not too sure about it

pool sand filter can help trap fine particles eg .dirt appeared in the aquarium water ?

Angela_96 · November 28th, 2008

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Originally Posted by jusabuketin

hey thxs . just to clear my doubts cause i not too sure about it

pool sand filter can help trap fine particles eg .dirt appeared in the aquarium water ?

there are a lot of people on here that can give u the good brands of the pool sands to buy.

soldieroffortune1974 · November 28th, 2008

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Originally Posted by jusabuketin

hey thxs . just to clear my doubts cause i not too sure about it

pool sand filter can help trap fine particles eg .dirt appeared in the aquarium water ?

I answered this in your other thread. I believe this is part of your project,to find out what works and what doesn't......That's why you were given the assignment, only 1 way to find out.........to try the different kinds and see which works and which doesn't.

You can't cut corners in science projects,or you nullify the results.

Matt · November 28th, 2008

Coral sand isnt bad for fresh water just i would recommend to use it for a cichlid tank because it increases water hardness.

-Matt

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