From Substrate to Bare-Bottom

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
go to a roofing yard, ask them if they have any old roof slate laying around. they may laf at you at first but explain. if they have any more than likes give to you for free. anything to help reduce the bone yard. and every roofing company has a bone yard.
 
keep in mind not all roofing companies do slate. this is a specialized (sp) type of roofing.
 
Got it today at Home Depot as square foot tiles. Not putting it in till later.
 
nice :)
 
Actually had an idea I'm going to make a thread on later but basically making a structure on each 1 foot tile and having like 6 tiles and rotating them to be cleaned (I can fit 4 in my tank at once)
 
wcgunns said:
I'm setting up my native sunfish tank now and I'm going with flagstone with a sand/gravel mixture to fill in the gaps. This will give me the benefits of a bare bottom tank as well as a natural look.
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you could but that means everytime you vac you have to remove all the tiles.
and if you do that you risk scratching or damaging your tank should a tile slip
out of your hand and hit the tank or something.
 
I don't recomend flagstone if you are not going to silicone it to tank. To clean under it you must remove it every time and you are going to scratch tank 100 %.
I recomend completly bare botom.
 
i dont clean under mine, my tank is flat bottomed double layer of 10mm so the gap is +- 1mm, i lifted it alot in the beginning to find barely nothing so i stopped... i would think substrate on a whole holds alot more crud even with heavy maintenance tbh.

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