Sand or Gravel

[cation]

Does anyone actually have a glass bottom? that would look so... er... bad. No plants, plastic bases for fake plants, the whole thing would be one big mirror.

I do, in some of my betta tanks, and in my fry tanks (mostly). I like it.

I have plants - floating plants, and loads of java fern growing on bogwood. I also usually put a smooth, medium size river rock or two in.

 

[Elisabeth83]

I have 4 tanks and 3 of them have sand. I'm treating the other tank with gravel for a bacterial problem..but soon as I am done with the treatment (2 days) I will be switching their tank to sand as well.

I really like sand better...I find it so much easier to clean and junk doesn't get stuck..it just stays on the top!

 

[MXPX4318]

Yep I definetly have gravel, because A) it was free, B) when I first started looking into fish keeping and reading about it, I read about how anaerboic (sp?) bacteria and gases could build up and poison the tank unless you had a fish that would constantly stir up the sand, which I wasn't planning on, C) I put in gravel and got fish and now that I have cories would like to change but don't want to mess up the equilibrium of everything as all the fish seem to be doing quite well, even the cories, (though i do think the gravel is a bit big for them, it's not huge, but it's not very small and fine either, poor cories, guess they'll have to wait for a new tank before they get sand, (which may or may not be a while we'll see if I get a place off campus next semester, or next fall)

 

[David]

Sand. I recently switched from gravel when I was redoing my 46 gallon. My 5 gallon is bare; it's much easier to clean that way, and the bettas don't really care either way.

 

[Sasha]

All of my tanks have gravel!

 

[cutechic]

Most of the large ones (and some of the betta tanks) have sand. About one third have gravel.