NW substrates

[alabaster]

What substrates are appropriate for NW cichlid setups? Is sand feasible, or does it present a problem with New Worlds? What about gravel? What are the pros and cons?
What type of substrate is best and which do you prefer? Please comment!

 

[Dwarfs]

IME, either is fine for NW, as long as they can dig (Fine gravel is better)

 

[juanveldez]

the same question was asked yester day and can be found here

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=103147

like I said it is essentally the same question.

 

[alabaster]

I've never had sand in any of my tanks, so I have a stupid question to ask: is it hard to use a gravel vac without sucking up the sand? Will a vac remove the fish waste but not the sand, or what?

 

[alabaster]

Sorry, my mistake. I didn't think to check earlier posts, and I'm not a regular of the New World portion of the forums. Again, sorry about that.

 

[juanveldez]

no problems, sand is a bit trickier to vac up, you are going to lose an amount of sand but I found that by holding the vac near the surface of the sand but not on it I was able to vac up the waste with minimal amounts of sand being lost.