Re: sand vs gravel

[ruddigar@home.com]

What you could do is put your BB gravel for the bottom two inches and
just have an inch or so of sand on top of that.  That way the plants
roots aren't too compact and your apistos can be happy too.

Jason Miller
Sherwood Park, AB

Doug Brown wrote:
> 
> Here's my testimonial. I switched to almost all sand over the past year as
> a result of this list and have been pretty happy with it. It's easy to
> clean (just vacuum the top) and the apistos obviously like it. But I too
> have mostly power filters and the sand does eventually get in there,
> especially with smaller tanks. Also, I noticed my plants weren't doing as
> well. I have one tank with that small BB sized gravel that I treated just
> like all my other tanks and the plants are growing out the lid in it! So I
> have converted half my tanks back to the little gravel (with the larger
> black gravel mixed in to get it darker) and we'll see how it goes.
>


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