How Do You Clean Play Sand?

[fifefish]

I have purchased some play sand and I was wondering how I would go about cleaning it?..
Also will there be any change in water stats due to using sand?

 

[NaughtyT]

I put mine into buckets and run the shower head in the buckets while i swirled the sand around with my hands,kept doing this until the water ran clear

 

[minxfishy]

Put some in a bowl and wash the same as you would for gravel, wont change your stats either.

 

[JSmails]

Just be careful when pouring the water out as I had a nightmare doing a large clean with sand going down the sink. This can block pipes.

 

[JenCliBee]

Bucket and then run a house and swish around every so often, another way is put it into an old pillow case and run a hose into it... both ways work equally well

 

[minxfishy]

My sink pipes and my drain outside are forever blocking due to gravel and stuff going down them, either from cleaning new gravel or from a too rigourous vaccing. Mr Muscle usually does the trick, or in the case of the outside drain, my hand pulling it all out - this is a smelly disgusting job too.

Bucket and then run a house and swish around every so often, another way is put it into an old pillow case and run a hose into it... both ways work equally well

Do houses run and swish hon

 

[fifefish]

I've cleaned the sand now,
I'm thinking that I will use a liquid Co2 or small Atomiser with a pressurized system to provide the plants with Co2.
Do you think that will be okay instead of a bottom layer of fertile substrate...

 

[JenCliBee]

My sink pipes and my drain outside are forever blocking due to gravel and stuff going down them, either from cleaning new gravel or from a too rigourous vaccing. Mr Muscle usually does the trick, or in the case of the outside drain, my hand pulling it all out - this is a smelly disgusting job too.

Bucket and then run a house and swish around every so often, another way is put it into an old pillow case and run a hose into it... both ways work equally well

Do houses run and swish hon

LOL , i wouldnt know i live in a flat pmsl ...... anyways cheeky lol!!!

 

[NaughtyT]

apparently mine does