Cleaning aquarium sand? DOH! :-|

[dan2x38]

Well what a stupid post this will be... I bought a 15g aquarium with parts & pieces plus some Tahitian Moon Sand more than 25 lbs for a great price. It was wet in a bag when I bought it. Well I laid it out in the tank then every few days turned it over to dry. It did dry. Well one of our cats discovered it as a litter box but he only pee'd in it...  DOH!

OK here is the question, how can I rinse this stuff? Is it ruined?  Geeze like to kick that cat's butt... 

[RossW]

Could you not soak it in a 10:1 bleach solution and rinse it very well?

[NetCop]

Well that sucks... just watch out for those ammonia spikes 

[Adam]

Just rinse a lot with water.

[Nerine]

hahahaha

sorry LOL!!
I can't stop laughing!! Cats!! Any sand is their sand!!!

I used a small bit of bleach...I had some very fine gravel and my cats used it as their litter box and I just took it to the utility sink, put in a mesh over the drain so I wouldn't loose the gravel and bleached and rinsed really well!!! (the gravel is still sitting in a bucket though, this time with a lid! LOL)

Good luck

[dan2x38]

Well it took 2 hours to clean that damn sand...  I took a few lbs. in a bucket cleaned it by rinsing with water over & over again until the entire 25lbs was cleaned. Then spent another 45 mins. cleaning out the tank. That dang cat...