Raising Part Of The Substrate?

[jiffy]

I am going to be setting up another 10g tank next week and wanted to make it so that some of the gravel would be higher in one section than another. I was thinking about stacking some rocks and covering those with gravel when I filled the tank, or just an extra bag of gravel dumped into a corner.

Are there any better solutions?

 

[anvil63]

Best way in my experience is to silicon slate to the bottom glass so it sticks up to the desired height.

Carl

 

[godzuki]

hi there

I think either way is good, but remember water current and cleaning and also the fish are going to keep moving the substrate. I tried it a while back and after 2 months I had bare rocks on one side and a tons of gravel in the other. to keep putting you hand into the tank to shift the gravel/sand around is going to cause a lot of stress and some people might disagree but fish know when things keep changing ...


kiss kiss
godzuki

 

[simonbrown403]

I,ve seen alsorts done siliconing a pice of glas or acrilic works wellthen cover it with some wood or rocks.

Personaly i just place some rocks or bogwood there to hold back the substrate.

 

[IovaykInD]

Takashi Amano has a tank where the gravel in the back is halfway to the top of the tank. The front has about 1 inch of gravel. I presume that he just threw in gravel and pushed it towards the back of the tank, he must have had to periodically push the gravel back if he did that.

 

[OohFeeshy]

Not sure, sand isn't the best thing to do it with... I'll have a look for the PFK article on creating a Chinese River tank, that has substrate like that.

 

[SamUK]

i have 2 raised areas in my tank.


on one side i put a semi circle of rocks and filled it with gravel, then another semicircle and added gravel behind that.

you can see my tank here

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=118324


on the other side i used a giant piece of rock. its about 2.5 feet long but it curves nicely so i jus filled behind it with gravel.

none of its moved so far!

 

[onemisterchristian]

People do it a lot in dutch aquascaping, with stairstepped sections. Google it, i'm sure theres tips out there.

 

[Stryker]

I just build a pile of rocks across a corner then fill it in with gravel, works fine. Thus my tank has a step at either end. The final result usually looks pretty good.