Substrate?

[bullit]

i just wondered what everyone was using. i have sand at the minute but may fancy changing to slate.
what sort of natural habitat are they meant to have but then im sure it varyies from diff species? i just fancy a more rockier look and less plants that ive got now. cheers

 

[Confish]

i just wondered what everyone was using. i have sand at the minute but may fancy changing to slate.
what sort of natural habitat are they meant to have but then im sure it varyies from diff species? i just fancy a more rockier look and less plants that ive got now. cheers

i use small sized white gravel, i had white sand b4 that but found it to much hard work. only problem is the dirt shows up easy, but it looks amazing with drift wood when clean ( my opinion )

 

[Monty-2010]

I use pea gravel, give the tanks a nice natural look

 

[markandhisfish]

at the moment im using sand but im sick of it being so much work to keep looking clean so im going to change to fine gravel soon .

 

[VickiandKev]

Am I the only person who doesn't mind if sand looks a little grubby round the edges between water changes?


Mind you, my idea of dirty might be different to others, as I have a lot of clown loaches, 3 big plecs, and geophagus too - all work together to make sure the muck is in nice little piles around the edges and plants for when I do a clean

I'd check on your stocking before switching to anything as coarse as slate fragments - I know I couldn't have anything but sand with my geos, ditto with my loaches too really as it could cause them a lot of damage!