Turning CC into LS?

[rsuddath3]

Ok, so after a lot of reading and talking and looking at people's setups I have decided to do away with the decade old CC I'm still using as my substrate. My question is this, sand is made up of the same stuff as CC that has just weathered significantly more right? Can I put all that CC I have in a bucket and crush it into little tiny "sand" pieces?

 

[acroholic]

It would be a lot of effort, and you'd make a ton of dust that you'd have to wash off anyways. You can buy Caribsea sand petty cheap locally. Too much work, IMO.

 

[jef4y]

Sand is cheap. I read a post a few years ago about a guy who ran his crushed coral through a blender to make it sand. It was a huge effort.


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[spiderman097]

JeF4y;658589 wrote: Sand is cheap. I read a post a few years ago about a guy who ran his crushed coral through a blender to make it sand. It was a huge effort.


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And then your blender's ruined.

 

[dawgface]

Lots of people have old sand or used sand lying around just ask.

 

[rsuddath3]

So doable but not practical. Got it. Since I'll be pulling all that CC out anyway, and it will definitely end up in a bucket, it'll give it a whirl with a garden auger or drywall mud mixer and just see what happens.

Thanks for the input y'all.

 

[rsuddath3]

I'll be doing my "experiment" this week. Gonna pick up the rest of my replacement sand this weekend.

But I have another question...

I've read a lot of advice for people moving stuff from one tank to another that says use new sand and not to move the old sand over. It's said to cause a bloom or other problems. So my question is, when people break down their tanks and sell their live sand, how is that different than moving sand from one tank to another? Obviously, it is not. So would rinsing the used sand get rid of the trapped nutrients or whatever would cause issues or is it actually a bad idea? Or is it different because you would dry the sand (killing whatever was in it) and then rinse it?