Plant Substrate

[mitch70]

My tank is well established and fairly heavily planted. My substrate is pea gravel. I want to add some plant friendly substrate but obviosly dont want to have to remove all the gravel. I have been looking at this -    Caribsea Eco-Complete. 
 
Can I just add this on top of my gravel? If not can anyone suggest anything else? Or will it all just end up all mixed up and look horrible?
 
Thanks

 

[richpowell1989]

Its gd stuff but only holds nutrients better than normal gravel it does not produce it

 

[Maehlice]

If your aquarium is already heavily planted and presumably doing well, why change anything at all?

 

[DrRob]

Or will it all just end up all mixed up and look horrible?
 
Thanks

 
The short answer to this is yes. The question that really occurs to me is why do you want to do this? Is it because you want to do the best you can (in which case not messing with the root systems would be my winner unless you're planning a total rescape) or is there a problem?

 

[Tongue_Flicker]

Agreed. Why fix what ain't broken then regret if it looks horrible? Sounding how you described your tank, seems to me that the plants there are well-established already

 

[mitch70]

thanks for the replies. Think I just get itchy fingers and want to tinker, but touch wood my plants are all doing fine.
 
I guess if it ain't broke don't fix it.
 
Thanks again

 

[SO19Firearms]

As above. And you'd probably be doing you're plants a better favour leaving alone all the goodness thats probably trapped between your gravel than replacing it with a pretty poor alternative.

IMO