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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, or call toll free 888 745-0449 for updates.
Dick
__________________ Amphibious
Reaching my 70th BD, I realize that I cannot help but grow old. However, I refuse to grow up!!! My wife would tell you, "He may be 70 but, He's going on 17". Life is wonderful with a woman like that.
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
__________________ Amphibious
Reaching my 70th BD, I realize that I cannot help but grow old. However, I refuse to grow up!!! My wife would tell you, "He may be 70 but, He's going on 17". Life is wonderful with a woman like that.
You got it Bobby. I have about 80 bags right now and will get more.
__________________ Amphibious
Reaching my 70th BD, I realize that I cannot help but grow old. However, I refuse to grow up!!! My wife would tell you, "He may be 70 but, He's going on 17". Life is wonderful with a woman like that.
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.
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
__________________ Amphibious
Reaching my 70th BD, I realize that I cannot help but grow old. However, I refuse to grow up!!! My wife would tell you, "He may be 70 but, He's going on 17". Life is wonderful with a woman like that.
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
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
__________________ Amphibious
Reaching my 70th BD, I realize that I cannot help but grow old. However, I refuse to grow up!!! My wife would tell you, "He may be 70 but, He's going on 17". Life is wonderful with a woman like that.
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 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*
10/4 David, not a problem. The bags just arrived. Now to see if they are adequate.
Dick
__________________ Amphibious
Reaching my 70th BD, I realize that I cannot help but grow old. However, I refuse to grow up!!! My wife would tell you, "He may be 70 but, He's going on 17". Life is wonderful with a woman like that.
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.
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??? JK!
__________________ Amphibious
Reaching my 70th BD, I realize that I cannot help but grow old. However, I refuse to grow up!!! My wife would tell you, "He may be 70 but, He's going on 17". Life is wonderful with a woman like that.
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
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.
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.
Dick
__________________ Amphibious
Reaching my 70th BD, I realize that I cannot help but grow old. However, I refuse to grow up!!! My wife would tell you, "He may be 70 but, He's going on 17". Life is wonderful with a woman like that.
icon under there name and give them Reputation points
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*
