Post Your Sand Tanks Here!

[Mako Man111]

I am torn between going with a brown gravel for my planted tank, or going with a white sand, so I wana see what some of your sand tanks look like, especially with plants.

Thanks if you post!

 

[tnhowery]

just set up two nights ago...Cleared up quick i was suprised...

Nobody looked at the post of my new tank set-up so maybe ya'll will see it here,

 

[Eelzor]

I used to have a sand tank with loaches, angels and catfish, looking back on it I kinda regret having white sand as a base as all the droppings tend to show up quite easily, especially with a bright fluorescent light brightening it all up. However as tnhowery's photo shows - I guess it can look nice in some ways.

 

[tnhowery]

I noticed that problem to..After some brainstorming i thought that a powerhead would either kick up the junk so the filter could pick it up or atleast get into the planted area so that it wasnt as visible.

So i took off to wally world (Wal-Mart) and picked one up for twenty bucks, 170 GPH and it works great, did exactly what i wanted it to.

 

[Teddy]

My sand looks exactly like snow. I wish it was a little more yellowish. Its pure white. Here are a few pics as of right now. Easy to set up; cleared instantly (actually it never got cloudy and was clear from the start). I set it up like 2 hours ago from having gravel. I like the look. I think its way better than gravel.

 

[cane76]

nice looking tanks

 

[geo7x]

this was taken a while back, but this is just regular argos play sand, works an absolute treat, takes little time to wash, and looks great.

not sure what kind of sand this is, came with tank. Havent got any full tank pics, just this.

 

[Rust]

Old 60g: (now has white sand)

45g (white sand)

120g (first black)
still cycling:

Then white:

And now natural:

Enjoy!

 

[White Whale]

A nano: 2.5g (this is an older tank, Googie has gone away this past spring). The tank is different now with 4 small Java Fern and Red Cherry shrimp tending to the mess of 3 small guppy fry.

 

[Lynz781]

My tank with brown silica sand. I really like the colour as I'm not too keen on white sand.

Close up:

 

[tnhowery]

Wow these are some great looking tanks

Lyn781-where did you get the brown silica sand at i was having a hard time around here trying to find any.

 

[Lynz781]

I got mine from a fish shop in Cupar, Scotland. Bit far from you. Got a bucket of spare stuff in the garage too.

 

[tnhowery]

I got mine from a fish shop in Cupar, Scotland. Bit far from you. Got a bucket of spare stuff in the garage too.

Neither of my two lfs carry sand, i had to use play sand from home depot, it worked just as good tho alothough i like the darker color it still is a huge improvement over gravel.

 

[iroc]

one of the reasons I used gravel over sand was i wanted to grow ground cover and i heard it is quite hard to do that with sand.

Someone with more experence might tell you different but I would take that into account when thinking of doing "heavily planted tank" unless you arn't planning on using any ground cover..........

 

[QuotheRaven]

I found that my internal power head filter works a treat in keeping water clean in sand tanks as my eheim 2213 and hang on filter ( 300 L per hour) haven't done alot for my 75 gallon...every one of my tanks has sand and I use it for safety reasons above all as Im a fan of bottom feeding fish...I cannot take pics of my tanks as one is being treated for velvet ( see OOOooohhhh Craaappp thread ) and the other is merely sand shells kribensis fry cories and kuhlii's not alot happening and isn't very interesting