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Yano

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I plan to have many plants and a school of cories and a pleco, what would be good to for substrate?
 
Sand or substrate especially for plants such as flourite would work well. You wouldn't want anything to to big like gravel because the corys will damage their barbells.
 
Hey, Yano.

My newest aquarium has laterite as the bottom layer and very fine gravel on the top. I'm excited to see how well the plants do in the finer gravel. Other tanks of mine have laterite on the bottom as well.

Although I've never kept cories, people say they love sand. I personally wouldn't want to deal with that fine of a substrate. :thumbs:
 
go with sand my cories love to dig up holes and play in sand and i would also consider other fish because your going to be very understocked with just a school of corys
 
O trust me I will be adding more fish :D , I just listed fish that I thought the substrate would have the most affect on.

Are there any sands in particular that you would recommend?
 
I used pool filter sand. My cory loves it - mind you... he's only known it for 5 hours. lol.

it was so much less expensive than the stuff the aquarium store sells.
 
Play sand and pool sand work great. Only problem Ive found with those is that it tends to make the fish colors kinda bland. I prefer black sand from the LFS. Its expensive but it really makes colors stand out.
 
Try silica sand, it has a natrual look to it
 
We use tahitian moon sand (it's black) but it was pretty hard to source in the UK. New corys are shortly to move in from the quarantine tank but our plecos seem to like it and it is nice and heavy so if it gets swished up then it sinks back quickly and doesn't get anywhere near the filter intakes.
 
Definately put fine substrate or sand in for the corys. It makes it easy for them to get food out of it. :nod:
 

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