[DJ88]

I am not so sure that live sand will keep during shipping. If you are talking about taking sand from an existing tank.

With the bacteria on each grain of sand you will find that any O2 that is in the bag will be used up very quickly. Just driving my tank from Victoria to Vancouver my sand bed died. And that wasn't a sealed bag. It was still in my open topped tank. Sand uses up O2 at a faster rate than you will believe. In a sealed bag you have very little O2.

Most companies ship the det kits as the critters in a bag so they have lots of O2 to survive. No sand.

Nothing against saltwater connections but I'd be wary shipping live sand any great distances. ie for longer than 6 hours. sealed in a bag the sand will kill itself. But tha is my take on the whle thing.

If you are talking about the live sand you can buy sealed from say caribsea all that is in that bag is some of the bacterias that you need to cycle a tank.