Can you clean and re-use aragonite sand?

I've read putting it in a bucket half full and filling it with water, preferably from a garden hose stuck in the bottom, and pouring out the dirty water until it was clean was the best way. While it's full of water you can stick yours hands in and stir it around. I've got two 5 gallon buckets full and I plan on cleaning them out and reusing them when I get my sump going. The best remote dsb I've seen is using a 5 gallon bucket with two fittings, one in one out, and have a small pump pump water in a couple inches from the surface and then gravity fed back to the sump. This could also get plumbed into the overflows somehow, but I would think it would be safer and more reliable/consistent if it was a small pump.

 

I would say throw it in one of your stock tanks like the rock with some flow and maybe a skimmer. One thing I would probably do is manually stir stand every so often to get the dead crap floating around picked up by the skimmer. Or have a pump that will suck up the water with all the nasties suspended in the water and feed it through a filter sock or some sort of mechanical filtration. I would also stir it right before a water change. This is just an idea not any time of proven method.

 

I'll try to dig it up, no promises! I think it might have been one of my magazines, there's dozens of those around...

 

Well it's not any of my thread bookmarks, I have them all organized. I have to work now, but I'll look through my magazines tonight, just for you AJ!

 

Well I think if you rinse the **** out of it, it's going to be pretty much regular sand. It'll become live, so there shouldn't be a problem using it.