Changing From Gravel To Sand..... :)

[Gilli]

Have been thinking of doing this for a while but ive been put off by the messy look as I have a large 250L community tank which includes a pooping machine fully grown Bn plec! If I bought black sand do you think this would solve the problem? Also how do you calculate how much you will need please?

 

[garyspence84]

Just done an other water check there and everything is fine. My PH is actually lower, but this will be due to all the additional bogwood in my tank. Amonia - 0 which is the most important thing.

Gilli... I have a 240ltr tank, 2 bags of argos play sand is more than enough. Which is 30kg in weight.

Good luck

 

[MrsM]

Ok hubby finished work early, took kids out...an hour n half later...fish out, gravel out...sand in...fish in...job done, just leaving lights out for an hour n ill take pics...corys loving it already, x

 

[zain611]

Thats the best thing, for the corys

 

[sadguppy]

Yay i am still deciding what to do about the tank i pick up Saturday, comes with gravel but do I want playsand instead...

 

[MrsM]

FROM THIS>>>>

TO THISS>>

looking at adding more plants...shuffling some stuff around, but heres whats happened so far

 

[spongy]

Looking good, I only switched from white coral gravel to black quartz gravel 3 months ago, but I'm really tempted to do this.

I can't justify spending more money on a rescape now, but I'm thinking I should, or should I? I don't know, I prefer the black look but it took ages to get my tank to look like this and I doubt I'll get it back the same if I did change, some of my plants now have massive root systems and trying to bury them all again doesn't appeal at all. But it looks great.

I think I need a magic 8 ball or a ouija board to help me decide

 

[comocrayfish5]

 

[DrSlackBladder]

So much better!

 

[MrsM]

Looking good, I only switched from white coral gravel to black quartz gravel 3 months ago, but I'm really tempted to do this.

I can't justify spending more money on a rescape now, but I'm thinking I should, or should I? I don't know, I prefer the black look but it took ages to get my tank to look like this and I doubt I'll get it back the same if I did change, some of my plants now have massive root systems and trying to bury them all again doesn't appeal at all. But it looks great.

I think I need a magic 8 ball or a ouija board to help me decide

you want to go back to white/pale sand again? go for it!! your tank is lovely but i do like the lighter sand TBH.

 

[MrsM]

and thank you all, im getting more plants in the next few days so ill update pics as i go

 

[zain611]

Glad to hear the female guppy on the second pic looks just like one of my females which doesnt have much colour on it as its about 6 months old

 

[MrsM]

both my females are preggers, hope the change to sand hasnt stressed them too much an hope i dont suffer a mini cycle...i wanna be a grandma haha

 

[garyspence84]

Looks awesome. Some difference isn't it? At least you don't ever have to do it again

 

[zain611]

Its important to check your water paremeters just in case of any spikes like when i did my change and put the fish in a bucket i noticed 4-5 guppy fry and noticed that my fry gave birth for the first time and i might say spawning may mostly take place when lower in temperature (which the bucket water was colder) but the problem was that my 6 month old male guppy was trying to breed with the 6 month old female (sister) so there could be inbreeding