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Beach sand conditioning

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#1 ·
Quick question...I have a beach home in Alabama. I am interested in using the sand to replace the crushed coral in my 225gal FOWLR. I would like to clean the sand of parasites. Any ideas? Heating it in the oven or freezing it? Someone said bleach but how do I get the chlorine out?
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#4 ·
you can use bleach.

When exposed to light and air, the chlorine will evaporate.

I would use a bleach mixture and soak the sand in it, then rinse a few dozen times... Then let it dry completely, then rinse, and add a triple dose of dechlorinator to the bucket, let it sit for a while (stir it), and you'll be done. :p

Or just go buy play sand. (Very little of the sand on the USA's beaches are real sand... Most of it's shipped in by the truckload.)
 
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