Aqua Terra Aquarium & Terrarium Sand, 5-lb bag

This is a 20 gallons tank, I have 5 bags of sand in there, so 25lbs. I took the after pic immediately after filling the tank with water and there's zero dust cloud. 1: Wash the sand in a big pot a few times until the water is relatively clear. Same process as washing rice, YouTube will have videos if you need an example. 2. After you dump the clean sand into the tank, cover it with something to prevent the water from disturbing it too much. I used a couple flimsy plastic cutting boards. I also used a glass pan which is where I aimed the water as it filled (further prevents disturbing the sand). 3. Remove your cutting boards and pan and stand in amazement at how clear your water is. That's This is a 20 gallons tank, I have 5 bags of sand in there, so 25lbs. I took the after pic immediately after filling the tank with water and there's zero dust cloud. 1: Wash the sand in a big pot a few times until the water is relatively clear. Same process as washing rice, YouTube will have videos if you need an example. 2. After you dump the clean sand into the tank, cover it with something to prevent the water from disturbing it too much. I used a couple flimsy plastic cutting boards. I also used a glass pan which is where I aimed the water as it filled (further prevents disturbing the sand). 3. Remove your cutting boards and pan and stand in amazement at how clear your water is. That's literally it lol. We're waiting for the water to heat up so we can move the fish over tonight. More hassle than preparing gravel but it wasn't that difficult, and I think the fishies will like the sand much more than the gavel :) … more

Added it today. Rinsed out my tank, put the sand in (I didn’t wash it) dry, laid the bag on top of it, stuck the water hose in, and filled it up. It wasn’t even cloudy like people exaggerate it to be. Or they just dump water in there. Of course it’s going to be cloudy if you do that.

It says there’s a bunch of different colors but all I see is white and off-white I wanted blue color but I am unable to purchase because there’s not an option for blue. Please consider offering all the colors that are offered on the picture.

The natural white is no where near as white as the images make it out to be. It is closer to the tan color. I was really wanting that pure white look the images in the product description showed.

It looks good but I did find little bits of debris in the sand. After putting the sand in the tank the water it was cloudy. It takes at least a day to settle down.

This sand is horrible. Made my new tank cloudy. I had to order new sand and start over. Wasted 50 gallons of water. New sand much better. Chewy credited my account though. Thank you chewy. A lot of extra work .

The sand held oder in the tank and bacteria built up in to ick no matter how many times I cleaned the sand and tank I could not get the bacteria out of the sand I finally had to dispose of the sand for better well being of my fish. Also spent a while day washing the sand when I first got it and it still made my tank cloudy for three weeks no matter how much filtration was done. This sand is more of a nuisance to deal with. I definitely suggest ocean sand. This is the worst sand I have ever used in my tanks if I could get a refund for it I would

The sand is great and a great color. It doesn't cloud the water for a long time if you accidentally put the water in to quickly lol. 4 stars because there's not a larger option.

i bought this for my aquarium. i spent an entire day washing this sand under the sink in a large pot, occassionally mixing it up as i went about my business and just letting the water run over it the whole time. when i was ready to put my tank together, the water was cloudy for the first two days before clearing up. so my advice is this: if you think youre being excessive washing this sand, trust the reviews, youre not ! but it looks very nice, so its definitely worth the work.

I love the sand , it looks so good in my tank and didn’t make it cloudy