How deep should I make the substrate?

[travelling-guppy]

I have come back to keeping tropical freshwater fish after a 2 year break. I have bought a 50L Dennerle Scaper's tank. I want to grow live plants and keep red cherry shrimp and amber tetras. Can you advise how deep I should make the substrate? I have bought some shrimp gravel but not sure how deep it needs to be. Thanks for any advice.

 

[flchamp89]

Ambers...im guessing you mean embers? Shrimp gravel....maybe made by fluval?

Hard to answer the question on depth. Generally 1 1/2 to 3. But this greatly depends on the substrate. Slopes and irregular terrarium is all the rage and adds a nice touch. There are ways to built up the substrate when doing this. I like a deep substrate. However you just need to understand that this can lead to anerobic pockets. I suggest you research this on your own.

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[travelling-guppy]

Yes, I meant Embers. Autocorrect strikes again! The gravel is Dennerle shrimp gravel and is inert. Do you mean inches or cm?

 

[flchamp89]

Inches sorry

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