Brilliant!
Cathic,
I couldn't agree with you more.
Let me give a little history behind Crystal Reef. Crystal Reef Live Sand Co. was founded in 1996. Our main product is live sand, however we are currently under research and development on cultured live rock and marine foods.
Specifically, our sand is aragonite. Aragonite by definition is, " a carbonite mineral, CaCO3". Aragonite comes in many different shapes and colors depending on what is bonded with the CaCO3. For example, if Iron was present in the bonding of CaCO3, the rock/sand would have a tint of red in it. Our sand is unique, because it is naturally occuring, however very rare to find. There are only 3 places on Earth to find this sand. In 1999, we obtained licensing and agreements with these three very large mines for the sand. It is not chemically altered or bleached. In fact, other than the beneficial bacteria with our trace elements, absolutely nothing is added to our sand. I have it in my 210 gallon and it looks great.
We are currently running a test market run on eBay for a projected 12 months. If we succeed there, our bags of live sand will be on the shelves of almost every pet/aquarium store nationwide, hopefully by 2013. We offer a 1 lb sample of our live sand on eBay for $2.59, shipping included. I am not promoting this for sales, but more or less to set the record straight. Our sand is aragonite, it is healthy for your aqaurium and we would never lie to our customers as the video states.
Our eBay handle is crystal-reef-sand, found on this link:
eBay My World - crystal-reef-sand.
As I don't monitor the forums as much as our eBay account, if you have questions please feel free to contact me anytime through eBay.
Thanks,
David
eBay Manager, Crystal Reef Live Sand Co.