What Is The Cost?

[vinylman]

Don't forget that sand can irritate the skin of some scaleless fish (loaches etc.).

 

[KathyM]

It's 6 and two threes really - I've got two tanks with sand in. One is a 60L which is doing fab, no problems, and the other is a 30" which is driving me up the bloody wall. It's put me off putting sand in another tank to be honest. If I set this tank back up, it will be with super fine gravel, which IMO is much better AND cories etc are fine with this.

Edited to add: In my big tank I have "black sand" which is actually very fine black glass chippings. That is also nice and light in texture and I'll be slinging some cories in there at some point.

 

[Joemuz]

It's 6 and two threes really - I've got two tanks with sand in. One is a 60L which is doing fab, no problems, and the other is a 30" which is driving me up the bloody wall. It's put me off putting sand in another tank to be honest. If I set this tank back up, it will be with super fine gravel, which IMO is much better AND cories etc are fine with this.

Edited to add: In my big tank I have "black sand" which is actually very fine black glass chippings. That is also nice and light in texture and I'll be slinging some cories in there at some point.

I cant decide. One minute sand is the proper job the nex its a pile of rubbish, cant decide?
If my sailfin plec is at the front of the tank and i come in the room and he spooks off, wont he rip up lots of cloudy sand thus making it easy to enter the filter?

 

[KathyM]

That was more than likely what contributed to our problems with sand, the plecs that were in there (we had a filter blockage/failure which caused it to start cycling again). I have my plecs on the black glass and they're fine with it, so I will probably go with that in the little tank if I ever decide to set it back up.