Habitat - Indoor :: The highly anticipated sand pictorial

[Chrisbarnett]

ok, so not that highly anticipated, but here it is.
If you have a slow connection, sorry, lots of pics.

The sand I bought, 5.68 at OSH.

What you'll need; 5 gal bucket, and hose.

Cut a small hole in the bag:

Pour the sand in the bucket, I only did a small amount because thats how much I wanted to add:

Initial fill up:

Let the hose run, go text some friends, work on something else...

After 5 min

After 10ish minutes, looks a lot clearer doesn't it? I deem it ready to go in the tank.

Dump off excess water slowly until you get this

Get something to put the sand in the tank with, I prefer a spatula.

NOTE: Turn off your filter before proceeding!
Grab a spatula full of sand...

and dump it in!

Dumping in more sand..

**I spilled some sand at this point, so I grabbed the vaccum and sucked it up before I ground it in the carpet with my foot.
And just a bit of cloudiness this time...

If you notice a lot of cloudiness, wait a while for it to settle before turning on your filter, in my case, I just plugged mine right back in.
I think that about covers it, Enjoy!

[Daniel3507]

what did you do with squirt?

[taurusgirl]

that looks easy enough
do you have to clean under it?

[Sk8gal]

They should make it a sticky

[crackerlady2007]

Yay!!! I'm going to do it. One question though. How do you clean it? I mean when you're ready to clean the tank, don't you have to shift through it or something? Or does all the garbage stay on top? Do you have to replace it ever? I'm SOO excited!!!

[Chrisbarnett]

I left him in the tank.

Check out the Sand FAQ sticky in this section, it addresses cleaning it. All garbage stays on top.

[Reel Girl]

Great pics, Chris - - I am off to check out the sand FAQ's - - I think I may have to go with sand!!

[Sk8gal]

Chris, maybe you should edit this procedure onto the sand FAQ?

[Chrisbarnett]

Thanks for reminding me. I planned on doing it earlier, but then I forgot.

I'll add it in a bit.

[PcBuilder14]

That looks good.

Why did you want more sand? I only have 20 pounds and it's enough to cover it fine.

[MoreBloodWine]

Great post, def should be a sticky !!!

[Chrisbarnett]

I only added a couple pounds, It was a bit too thin for my liking in some areas, and I wanted some more to mound up around my plants.

[Chrisbarnett]

Ok, I added this to the Sand FAQ.

[Raphulk]

hahaa nice label on the bucket
"tank water only!"

i have a bunch of tupperware labeled turtle and bottles and gloves ahha.


nice tutorial, i cant wait to start my 50g setup......still havent started

[Chrisbarnett]

Hahaha ya, i put the label on their because my mom would have forgot and used it to hold carwash liquid or something.