Stocking Ideas 4Ft

[Ruskull]

Sounds like it's a nice big tank & you have a great plan for an aquascape that happens to suit many different fish.

 

[KittyKat]

denzil1nil, your décor ideas do not really limit you at all, although I'd prefer to see sand-only and a few large pebbles if I had loaches. Did you know that it is possible to get black sand? It's very costly though.

 

[denzil1nil]

thanks kitty kat will look up tha black sand thanks

 

[ian21777]

denzil1nil, your décor ideas do not really limit you at all, although I'd prefer to see sand-only and a few large pebbles if I had loaches. Did you know that it is possible to get black sand? It's very costly though.

Black sand isn't actually as expensive as you might think. i just got a 2.5kg bag from maidenhead aquatics in plymouth for around the same price as regular silver sand. Obviously it would need more than one bag, but I believe they also do a 7.5 kg bag for about £10. The brand was unipack and the colour was 'limpopo black' It isn't jet black, but looks quite effective... I did find a much darker black sand also from unipack, but it was very much finer than the other, it was almost like mud in its consitancy. I have seachem flourite also which is very expensive, but that is very shrap and no good for corys.. hence the small bag of sand for a top layer

 

[KittyKat]

Did you know that it is possible to get black sand? It's very costly though.

Black sand isn't actually as expensive as you might think. i just got a 2.5kg bag from maidenhead aquatics in plymouth for around the same price as regular silver sand. Obviously it would need more than one bag, but I believe they also do a 7.5 kg bag for about £10. The brand was unipack and the colour was 'limpopo black' It isn't jet black, but looks quite effective... I did find a much darker black sand also from unipack, but it was very much finer than the other, it was almost like mud in its consitancy. I have seachem flourite also which is very expensive, but that is very shrap and no good for corys.. hence the small bag of sand for a top layer

Well, when comparing it to paying around £10-15 for 140 litres of substrate (9p per litre), 7.5 kg (9 litres) for £10 (£1.11 per litre) is about 13 times more denzil1nil, since I looked it up, you might find it useful to know that for the tank in question, every 20 kg of sand should give around 5 cm of substrate

By the way, baked (or unbaked, if you prefer goo) clay cat litter should in theory be a good alternative to Fluorite… unless something other than clay is in Fluorite (I have not looked into it much, so cannot say either way)… for a fraction of the price.

 

[denzil1nil]

ok thanks guys will look into it more for the substrate ive seen that you can buy a type of aquarium soil (cant find the site now lol). Im looking to have a well planted tank so if anyone has any info an aqua soils plz help