Carib Sea Arag-Alive Substrate Special Grade Reef Sand, 10 lb.
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You can now bring the world’s most exotic reefs into your home with CaribSea’s Arag-Alive substrates. It is developed from CaribSea’s cooperation with public aquariums and zoological parks, where authenticity is a must. Arag-Alive helps maintain a proper pH for the life of your aquarium without the constant addition of chemicals and creates a biological balance to discourage nuisance algae. Arag-Alive contains millions of bacteria per pound specially engineered for aggressive waste reduction in closed systems like your aquarium. Arag-Alive is engineered to suppress “new tank syndrome” and compress the ammonia cycle. It begins to cycle your aquarium instantly. In fact, independent labs prove Arag-Alive cycles your aquarium days faster than other brands.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Product Dimensions : 10 x 2 x 14 inches; 10 Pounds
Item model number : 01790
Date First Available : April 3, 2008
Manufacturer : Carib Sea
ASIN : B00VVBEW9W
May also be used in marine or African cichlid aquariums
Contains millions of beneficial marine bacteria to enhance biological filtration
Ideal for most freshwater aquaria, including discus, tetras, angelfish, water turtles, rays, plants, cichlids and more
7 reviews for Carib Sea Arag-Alive Substrate Special Grade Reef Sand, 10 lb.
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Joekwan –
Nice sand
Nice sand with a nice look. I ordered two bags for a Innovative marine 25 gallon lagoon I can turn my Nero 3 pump up to 100% with no effect on sand very pleased with this.
Miles –
Great after 6 months
Still looks good and has been perfect, liking much better than smaller grains for a reef tank.
Rance K. –
This is just what I need to start a new saltwater tank
I love this sand its great
DILLIGAF –
My fish LOVE it!
Delivered very fast, fish love it better than I expected, my tank has never been so clear. Once the initial dust cloud cleared & filter changed. First time using sand in aquarium⦠will never go back to gravel.
Blue Mountain –
Great Product
I prefer the Special Grade size. I tried a smaller grain and it blew all over the tank. This stays put on the floor of the aquarium for the most part unless your power heads create too much of a current. Delivery was a bit slow.
Aiptasia –
This is a great grain size for the most common type of reef …
Caribsea is the leader in substrate for saltwater aquaria. This is a great grain size for the most common type of reef tank setup; for when you want a thinner 1″ sand bed that doesn’t have grains that blow around in high flow (like oolitic or sugar sand). This grain size is also ideal when siphoning the detritus out of a sand bed is a requirement of your maintenance routine. It clears quickly in an established tank (unlike 2-3 days for sugar sand) and corals, fish and inverts have no problems with it. It’s only drawback is that it can’t be used for deep sand bed denitrification. It’s too large/porous for that and you should employ either a gravel vac approach or adding sand sifting inverts such as sea cukes, sand sifter starfish and/or nassarius snails to your tank when choosing it. Aside from that, my mileage with new tank syndrome is greatly reduced when using CaribSea’s live sand products and this is a great all purpose grain size.
Israel Rivera –
Me agradó mucho su consistencia y calidad sobre todo que ya trae su cultivo de bacterias y su compuesto para disipar la turbidez en el agua, buen producto.