I've read your question and all that comes to mind is... NOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo!!! LoL
Please Don't Do It, or you'll be sorry. I speak from experience... well kind of as I used playground sand from Home Depot about 6 years ago on my first system. Beaches are considered to be natures protein skimmer. Have you seen foam washing up at the beach? Plus the sand in our Texas beaches are silica (quartz) based which can fuel diatoms and does nothing to buffer our tanks. A number of us have considered it, but after learning the negatives decide not to. I also can't remember anyone who has incorporated silica sand in a successful reef system.
Last edited by SoLiD; Tue, 27th Mar 2012 at 11:00 PM.
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