Quote:
|
Originally Posted by smidoid
Dr Shimek has some interesting posts on DSBs...
|
He has also written several articles on sandbeds, some of which are actually still available online:
Sand Beds:
How Sand Beds Really Work
Feeding Begets Food, 1: or… Food Production By Design, How A Deep Sand Bed Can Produce Food For Reef Inhabitants.
What lives in live sand? (Do you really want to put your hands in this stuff?)
Odd Pods, Tanaids in Reef Aquaria
The Infamous Detritivore
Quote:
|
I want some Oolitic sand for my bed (the sand bed that is, it would be too itchy) but no one seems to know where to get it over my way.... ? Help.
|
Oolitic simply describes particle shape (egg shaped). You want some aragonite sand. It should be available over there, although at a higher price than over here because all of the aragonite sand in the world comes from the same place in the Bahamas.
ESV in New York sells oolitic aragonite sand but I don't know if it's available in the U.K. Some people like this product because it is a very small particle size.
P.S. -- Ron Shimek has links to most of his articles
here. Most of the links work but some do not.