Best substrate for Jurupari Earth Eater?

[draknurd]

I have 2 Jurupari Earth Eater and want to know what is the best substrate for these. Exact type please? not just sand.

 

[Nic]

sand works very nice for geos....

 

[darth pike]

Exact type? I'd go with 3M grade 'S' ... softest stuff I know of.

 

[JGoslee]

Any type of sand will work. I have my Tapajos Orange Heads with pool filter sand and they love it.

 

[FSM]

Pool Filter Sand is clean and cheap. I assume it would be fine for them.

 

[House 64]

I've used "Pre-Rinsed Play Sand" from Lowes/Home Depot for my Geo tanks before and it worked extremely well. It was under $5.00 a 50 lbs. bag so it wasn't expensive if you decide to go a different route. Lowes had the "lighter" color and the grains were finer.... and the keyword is "Pre-Rinsed"!

 

[nuth88]

I would go with the 3M Color Quartz, I like the T grade, as it is not as fine as the S, The S IMHO is best for Gymno, as they are smaller, but just get the 3M, both grades are great, just depends on your filtration.

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

Can head into pool stores and get pool filter sand as well, it looks pretty natural - is fairly clean (needs a rinse) and the geo's will munch through it.

 

[HiImSean]

i use pool filter sand with my jurupari

 

[TwistedPenguin]

I agree with Darth Pike. The one I had (just gave him away a week ago) was in a 6' tank with black 3M ColorQuartz sand, he used to start at one end of the tank and shovel all the way to the opposite end making a tunnel the whole way. It's real soft sand that's uniform in size.