Will Plants Be Okay In Sand?

[Thomas 2507]

i've finally decided to convert my tanks to sand and anm just wondering if plants are okay in sand?

cheers

 

[ShoC]

Sand is Very Inert.
Little to No nutrition

you might need either root tabs or some Nutrition substrate below it

I'm using Tetra tec Eco complete myself

 

[Thomas 2507]

Okay, can anyone confirm this?

 

[three-fingers]

Yep...all true.

It depends on what plants your talking about, but all will benefit greatly from root tabs or a plant substrate underneath the plants.
Especially if it's a new tank, the sand wont even have any dirt like fish poop in it, the plants wont be getting any nutrients from their roots.

 

[Thomas 2507]

cool, i will get some eco complete or something as a base substrate and top it with sand, right?

 

[three-fingers]

Yep .

 

[LosC519]

Root tabs work great. Swords greatly benefit from root tabs.

 

[Behold]

im running sand and use api root tabs at the moment and my 3 swords are fine. i also have some reed (name is unknown) , anubias and 2 types of echindorus all growing fine in sand. im running about 1.5WPG