Aragonite sand is the first choice for a DSB. When you could buy it from HD for about $6 a bag it was considered cheap compared to your LFS price for Carib Sea. When the HD source vanished a couple of years ago I bought the last 22 bags our local HD store (In WI before our move to FL) had in stock. I sold a few to WI club members before I realized Aragonite sand was going to be hard or impossible to buy at any price with the exception of LFSs.

We are happy to announce that Aragonite sand will be available once again. I wish it were at the HD price level but I can't. However, it will be below what Carib Sea gets for there dry Aragonite.

It comes in 30# bags and should retail for around $20 locally here in FL. If you are local (Ft Pierce area) I have to recommend the LFSs that are buying it wholesale from us. Call for further directions 888-745-0449.

For those interested in us shipping it to you, I have to find a source of sturdy boxes before we can ship.

Stay tuned here on TR, log on The Cultured Reef (http://www.theculturedreef.com/aragonite.htm), or call toll free 888 745-0449 for updates.

Dick

sign me up.. when you figure out how your going to be shipping i am very interested.. :)

You got it Rob. You are number uno on the list.

I knew about this source of aragonite for about a year but the guy didn't have a way to bag it properly. He bought a bag sealer, labels and a scale and that is making the difference. He's a coral grower in South FL. Good guy, good friend.

Dick

put me second on the list !!

You got it Bobby. I have about 80 bags right now and will get more.

Aragonite Sand

We are conducting a test of boxing and shipping Aragonite sand. It involved going to a different sized/shape box. The low rectangular boxes I tried first were not strong enough and several boxes broke open breaking open the plastic bag containing the sand. That was a losing proposition.

I'm conducting a test run of 25 - 30#s of Aragonite sand in a cube box. This is Pure Aragonite Sand from the Bahamas. Nothing has been added, nothing has been removed.

After the 25 boxes are sold. I will evaluate the end result and decide whether to continue shipping it. Price ($25.95) includes shipping. Shipping costs are a drain on profit.

Here's the link - Aragonite Sand (http://www.theculturedreef.com/aragonite.htm)

It is strictly first come first served. Members of TR, you are being notified a week before my customer base e-mail list.

Thank you.

Dick

Dick, You are brighter than I :) How many lbs do you think I'd need for a 5 inch sand bed in my 56 column (30X18X24)? I want in on this brother...

Dave

Not sure about the "brighter" part but, I thought you might be interested. I went to (Oh I hate to say it) RC and used their "sand calculator" here's the link - Reef Central sand calc (http://www.reefcentral.com/calc/SandBed.php)

Put in the length, width and the depth of sand desired and hit calculate. For your 30 x 18 x 5" depth it brought back a figure of 109 lbs. I used a cubic foot of sand weighing 70 lbs as the denominator. That's what CaribSea claims is the weight. I'll take their word for it. If that's accurate you'd need 3 boxes minimum or 4 to be sure.

Dick

K... going to your site to lock in for three. I have a bag of Southdown and some other sand kicking around in buckets.

Thanks!

Dave

Wellll... just called the boss (read wife) to tell her I was using the card to buy this and she reminded me of the 3 bags of Southdown I had in her side of the garage :eek: I didn't even remember it. Actually, there's 2 and 1/2 because it seems, she said, that they USED IT ON THE DRIVEWAY THIS WINTER WHILE I WAS ON TRAVEL *argh*

Let me do my math. I may be in for just one box.

Dave

10/4 David, not a problem. The bags just arrived. Now to see if they are adequate.

Dick

Dick,

I think I goofed up. You said you didn't open this to the masses yet. Wellll... I tend to frequent many boards, and when I saw posts for aragonite sand, I sent them to The Cultured Reef. Sorry if I was premature in this.

Dave

Not a problem Dave. I goofed a bit too. I was working on a web site update for my e-mail list and sent it out to about 100 members. To be fair, I'm going to have to send it to the rest of list, another 200 members or so. So, not a problem. I've got 3000 lbs of bagged sand just wasn't sure this new box/bag combo is going to work.

Speaking of work, you're always here...do you work??? :rotfl: :rotfl: JK!

I do work :) It's just handy when you work for a company that had a hand at the invention of the Internet. As long as my work gets done (and I do work until I sleep at night), they're lenient with the use of the internet. I'm typing away now, having a shrimp stir fry (block the ears of your skunk cleaners) and burning time before my 1:00 meeting :)

Dave

1957
The USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite. In response,the United States forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military.
Internet Backbones: None - Hosts: None
1962
RAND Paul Baran, of the RAND Corporation (a government agency), was commissioned by the U.S. Air Force to do a study on how it could maintain its command and control over its missiles and bombers, after a nuclear attack. This was to be a military research network that could survive a nuclear strike, decentralized so that if any locations (cities) in the U.S. were attacked, the military could still have control of nuclear arms for a counter-attack.

Baran's finished document described several ways to accomplish this. His final proposal was a packet switched network.

"Packet switching is the breaking down of data into datagrams or packets that are labeled to indicate the origin and the destination of the information and the forwarding of these packets from one computer to another computer until the information arrives at its final destination computer. This was crucial to the realization of a computer network. If packets are lost at any given point, the message can be resent by the originator."
Internet Backbones: None - Hosts: None
1968
ARPA awarded the ARPANET contract to BBN. BBN had selected a Honeywell minicomputer as the base on which they would build the switch. The physical network was constructed in 1969, linking four nodes: University of California at Los Angeles, SRI (in Stanford), University of California at Santa Barbara, and University of Utah. The network was wired together via 50 Kbps circuits.
Internet Backbones: 50Kbps ARPANET - Hosts: 4
1972
The first e-mail program was created by Ray Tomlinson of BBN.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was renamed The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (or DARPA)

ARPANET was currently using the Network Control Protocol or NCP to transfer data. This allowed communications between hosts running on the same network.

Internet Backbones: 50Kbps ARPANET - Hosts: 23

I do work :) It's just handy when you work for a company that had a hand at the invention of the Internet.

D*mn David, I didn't know you worked for AL GORE. :shout: :rotfl:

Dick

1957
The USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite. In response,the United States forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military.
Internet Backbones: None - Hosts: None
1962
RAND Paul Baran, of the RAND Corporation (a government agency), was commissioned by the U.S. Air Force to do a study on how it could maintain its command and control over its missiles and bombers, after a nuclear attack. This was to be a military research network that could survive a nuclear strike, decentralized so that if any locations (cities) in the U.S. were attacked, the military could still have control of nuclear arms for a counter-attack.

Baran's finished document described several ways to accomplish this. His final proposal was a packet switched network.

"Packet switching is the breaking down of data into datagrams or packets that are labeled to indicate the origin and the destination of the information and the forwarding of these packets from one computer to another computer until the information arrives at its final destination computer. This was crucial to the realization of a computer network. If packets are lost at any given point, the message can be resent by the originator."
Internet Backbones: None - Hosts: None
1968
ARPA awarded the ARPANET contract to BBN. BBN had selected a Honeywell minicomputer as the base on which they would build the switch. The physical network was constructed in 1969, linking four nodes: University of California at Los Angeles, SRI (in Stanford), University of California at Santa Barbara, and University of Utah. The network was wired together via 50 Kbps circuits.
Internet Backbones: 50Kbps ARPANET - Hosts: 4
1972
The first e-mail program was created by Ray Tomlinson of BBN.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was renamed The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (or DARPA)

ARPANET was currently using the Network Control Protocol or NCP to transfer data. This allowed communications between hosts running on the same network.

Internet Backbones: 50Kbps ARPANET - Hosts: 23

DAVID, this is more information than I want to know. Knowing all the above, am I going to be on a Jihadist hit list??? :huh: :rotfl:

Dick

Al Gore doesn't have a badge for my facility :)

Naw... that information is public information... the OTHER stuff you know... we have to kill you for.

Dave

<singing> I got friends in high places <singing> Oh, never mind, that's low places. :)