Re: 500 gallon tank

[Tom DeBenedictis]

> Going to use about 50 or so lbs. of Fiji live sand for the substrate.     50 lbs of sand will be a dusting in a 500G tank.Try ESV Oolitic sand it's about 50lbs for $20. I added 2 of those plus 100lbs of live sand to my 120G.But I put the ESV in by itself for 2 weeks then added the live sand then the LR. So your procedure will have to be different.Down in my refugium I have 50lbs of Fiji sand. Pretty interesting stuff but although they claim it's live it is rinsed and I found no life with a jewelers loupe(magnifying glass).But it now houses a wide variety of critters but some I added.I also added all the rubble from 400lbs of LR whick I think most of the life came from. HTH Tom