In the future, I'll be changing my substrate on my 10g out so that it's not such an eyesore. I've been toying with the idea of sand, but can't find any locally (that's not my question).
Since I have all this time to kill, I naturally fill it with research.
I keep reading radically different opinions on sand.
a) It's too hard to keep.
B) It's way easier to keep.
The source of the different opinions seems to be the type of fish you keep, since it usually means different types of food and messes.
It seems like it'd be an ideal substrate for a small tank like mine. It makes messes really obvious (a plus and a minus, listed on both sides), so that you know what places to vac up. Most fish seem to enjoy it, and it's attractive.
I am starting to think that sand would be an ideal choice for me -- particularly pool filter sand, which I've read is denser than most other sands -- because of this. Since my 10g tends to be fed predominantly frozen blood worms, it'd make all the frozen blood worms easy for my afican dwar frogs, shrimps, and betta to find, without the worry of it falling between the cracks. I can order malasyain trumpet snails online, pretty easy, to chrun up the sand for me.
My tank is planted. I read on one site, that my cryptocoryene plants are deep rooted, and that 3 inches (7.6 cm) is about the best depth for them. Would a depth of 3" of sand be problematic, or is that simply.. you know, a silly concern.
Again, my tank holds 3 African Dwarf Frogs, 7 ghost shrimp, 1 betta, and 1 otocinclus. It's heavily planted, and is a medium light tank. My betta is fed daily, pellet food, and my ADFs are fed frozen bloodworms on a rotating schedule. My shrimps eat whatever they get their grubby paws on.
Yes, I've read the TFF FAQ on pool filter sand. Mostly the FAQ concerns what sand is considered appropriate, and even in that thread you see people post, "it's pretty but hard to keep clean!" and "it's way easier to keep clean than gravel!"
Sand is honestly starting to seem like the best choice for my tank, keeping in mind that the only sinking food in that tank is blood worms, and that the bloodworms tend to fall between the cracks and are unreachable with gravel at the moment.
Beh, I'm thinking too hard. Advice is welcome, all the advice I've read online seems so conflicting that I'm not sure if sky is blue, anymore.
Since I have all this time to kill, I naturally fill it with research.
I keep reading radically different opinions on sand.
a) It's too hard to keep.
B) It's way easier to keep.
The source of the different opinions seems to be the type of fish you keep, since it usually means different types of food and messes.
It seems like it'd be an ideal substrate for a small tank like mine. It makes messes really obvious (a plus and a minus, listed on both sides), so that you know what places to vac up. Most fish seem to enjoy it, and it's attractive.
I am starting to think that sand would be an ideal choice for me -- particularly pool filter sand, which I've read is denser than most other sands -- because of this. Since my 10g tends to be fed predominantly frozen blood worms, it'd make all the frozen blood worms easy for my afican dwar frogs, shrimps, and betta to find, without the worry of it falling between the cracks. I can order malasyain trumpet snails online, pretty easy, to chrun up the sand for me.
My tank is planted. I read on one site, that my cryptocoryene plants are deep rooted, and that 3 inches (7.6 cm) is about the best depth for them. Would a depth of 3" of sand be problematic, or is that simply.. you know, a silly concern.
Again, my tank holds 3 African Dwarf Frogs, 7 ghost shrimp, 1 betta, and 1 otocinclus. It's heavily planted, and is a medium light tank. My betta is fed daily, pellet food, and my ADFs are fed frozen bloodworms on a rotating schedule. My shrimps eat whatever they get their grubby paws on.
Yes, I've read the TFF FAQ on pool filter sand. Mostly the FAQ concerns what sand is considered appropriate, and even in that thread you see people post, "it's pretty but hard to keep clean!" and "it's way easier to keep clean than gravel!"
Sand is honestly starting to seem like the best choice for my tank, keeping in mind that the only sinking food in that tank is blood worms, and that the bloodworms tend to fall between the cracks and are unreachable with gravel at the moment.
Beh, I'm thinking too hard. Advice is welcome, all the advice I've read online seems so conflicting that I'm not sure if sky is blue, anymore.
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