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hi guys.

i'm sure almost all of us do this b4 we put sand into our tanks.

how ever, after washing a couple of bags of sand....i realised i can't do it well, fast, waste alot of sand and worse of all the sand isn't really that clean!!

will some kind soul with some miracle technic teach me how?

:cry2:

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Hi, what i did was that i just ran a magnet thru the bags of sand and straight after, i just poured all the sand into the tank without washing. Then, I just let the system ran for a number of days. While letting the tank run without any LRs/LSs, i kept changing the sponge. And also, I siphoned away the debris when the sand settled. That's how i 'wash' the sand. A lazy person method i guess. :D

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I poured 10kg pack to baby bath tube :) My kids one. Than add water, use hand to move sand here and there. About 2 mins, change water, do same things, about 3-4 times , water become clear. Than just add to the tank without need to wait for sand to settle ( a few days ).

It's take time, for 10kg it's took about 10mins.

Oh yea make sure you wear glove if you are going to do this.

Life is like a peice of Uncured Live Rock [ from LFS ], you never know what you gonna get.........

Ocean Gump

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I poured 10kg pack to baby bath tube :) My kids one. Than add water, use hand to move sand here and there. About 2 mins, change water, do same things, about 3-4 times , water become clear. Than just add to the tank without need to wait for sand to settle ( a few days ).

It's take time, for 10kg it's took about 10mins.

Oh yea make sure you wear glove if you are going to do this.

gloves?

there r sharp objects inside the sand?

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U will only know when you are bleeding. Don't forget sand is a sharp object too :)

Me kanaed a few time , so learned :)

Life is like a peice of Uncured Live Rock [ from LFS ], you never know what you gonna get.........

Ocean Gump

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I poured 10kg pack to baby bath tube :) My kids one. Than add water, use hand to move sand here and there. About 2 mins, change water, do same things, about 3-4 times , water become clear. Than just add to the tank without need to wait for sand to settle ( a few days ).

It's take time, for 10kg it's took about 10mins.

Oh yea make sure you wear glove if you are going to do this.

:sick: 10mins eh?....i used 4 hours to clean 90kg of sand todae........backache....oh!

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