[Reyes]

Hi, I’m curious about these sands. Are they safe to use for aquariums with fishes?

 

[Mr.Shenanagins]

I have playsand from Quikrete. If I could do it again I’d go with pool filter. The playsand is fine and gets clumpy. It’s nice to look at but for aquascaping not so much. A thin layer of a couple inches would be fine cosmetically, just don’t use it to plant in.

 

[minorhero]

I have play sand from home depot and pool filter sand. Both work but the play sand needed about 15 buckets worth of rinsing while the pool filter sand was good to go out of the bag.

 

[pablos]

I put 80kg of filter sand to my tank ... it works well.

 

[discuspaul]

Save yourself a hassle and forget the play sand - just use pool filter sand !