bottom dwellers+sand=????

[Edwin]

do pleco do well in a sandy bottom????? or any other bottom dwellers?

if so, wat BDs do well in sandy bottom???

 

[Ianab]

Yup.. plecos should be fine with either sand or fine gravel, a couple of my tanks actually have a 'river mix' of both.

Loaches seem to like sand as well, some species will even dig into it to search for food or hide.

Cheers

Ian

 

[reptech]

i have sand in my tank and every one is doing great

 

[Edwin]

cool thanks. just curiousity, is there any fish that should not be placed in sand???

 

[davo]

Can't think of any. Eels like it, plecos like it, bigger cats, stingrays, loaches, lungfish do fine... list goes on.

 

[Dreamsofpeace54]

probably better if u go sand and have bichirs. They seem to like eating gravel.

 

[Edwin]

ya i was lookin into that too. i guess sand is the choice. is there such thing, black sand??

i heard is not

 

[Ianab]

is there such thing, black sand

You can try this stuff, I have seen it used as tank substrate before. You can get it in black. It's not available here in NZ so I haven't seen it in person

http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/ColorQuartz/HomePage/Products/Crystals/

It's used for mixing with epoxy and coating swimming pools, but it's just coloured quartz (sand)

We do have black volcanic sand on the local beaches that I've used in a coldwater marine tank before though.

Cheers

Ian

 

[Edwin]

oh
cool

 

[davo]

I have black sand in one of my tanks.