Carib Sea ACS00222 African Sahara Sand for Aquarium, 20-Pound

The media could not be loaded.  I bought this for my Tiger Oscar's new 125 gallon tank. I was worried a bit because the negative reviews where about the tank not clearing up after it has been put in the tank. But after doing a lot or reading, I was convinced that this product is the better of them all. Now, this is a natural product so I really did not expect that it will be perfectly uniform in every bags. I ordered 5 bags of 10lbs and each bag has either much of the black gravel or less of it. Either way, it was beautiful. I attached pictures of what it looked like first time I put water in to wash it. I did not have a big enough basin to wash it with so I just used a big kitchen bowl I have - so, for each bag, I had to dump 1/3 of the bag at a time and the first couple of wash showed the water being very murky. But surprisingly, after about 5 more washes, the water was running practically almost clear but not quite (two pictures attached of the product after the 6-7 washes i made. Some of the bags contained darker sand than the others, but they are all beautiful. I dumped it all into the new fish tank and added water. The water was a little cloudy but I am amazed to see my tank in the water as it has become crystal clear. Attached video.The key here I believe is the proper washing. I was not willing to take a short cut bec I do not want any of my fish to die. So I did rinse very well.

The media could not be loaded.  I love the color, and the price. It does take time to rinse , but the outcome is great. The fish love it!!!

Great for african cichlid tanks. Keeps the pH at 8+,was easy to rinse, and settled quickly after filling the tank. Plus the black and white sand looks great in my opinion.

As advertised. Excellent product

I had switched from a. 25 gallon tank to a 70 gallon tank and I set it up the same way as my last aquarium. And while changing my water one day, all my gold fish has suddenly died. And I noticed a fungus on the very bottom. I had went to a aquarium shop to ask for support. And they had told me to stop using gravel, start all over, and to start using the African sand. What I like about it is it’s very light and looks much nicer than gravel. In addition to the beautiful natural looking color, what I don’t like about it is because it’s so thin it has clogged up 2 of my gravel cleaners. so now I get to figure out something else to use, when changing the water in my tank.

It did cloud up the tank initially (even after five rinses) but the next morning this is what my tank looked like. The substrate is beautiful!

I received my sand today - took 1/4 of the bag- put it in a pail and flushed it with the sprinkler on the hose. Just let the bucket fill up and drain itself - moving the sand around the bottom of the pail as the water rushes through and within a few minutes it was clean and the water ran clean. It is very dirty and cloudy when you first start the wash. BUT the beautiful sand your left with is well worth it. It is just gorgeous and will be the base in my globe air fern terrariums. To me this unusual sand is well worth the cost and the effort to clean it up for use. Great buy, and it came faster then expected.

Really like this sustrate took forever to wash and after 6 riseing still clouded up the tank so bad I couldn't but after I rised the filter a couple times it cleared up by the next morning. What I really like about it is I've been doing pH up for 3 days and saw no change the alkaline was dangerously low. And after I put the substrate in both raised to a heathly level and the pH when up from a light orange to a dark redish orange so now once the tank sets another day I can finally add chiclets like ive been looking forward to doing.

have 80lbs in a 210 gallon (maybe should of gotten 100lbs). raises ph to perfect levels for chiclids. waste doesn't get embedded and its heavy enough it doesn't get sucked up into the gravel vac. same bag cost over $50 in local pet store so this is a great price from amazon.

Ya había comprado una bolsa. Compre la segunda.. Pero llegó con mucha piedra negra y no me gusto tanto.

Returned the product - it is not as advertised - it is a fine sand mix - it is not the coarse crushed coral/stone mix. Amazon was great with the return - no issues - but it was not the product pictured in the ad

Used in potted plants to cover the soil 1/4” to trap/block fungus gnats and it worked perfectly

Es de buena calidad se ve muy bien