Gravel or No Gravel?

[Deepsouth]

Sand!

I like sand, but only in Saltwater or African Chiclid tanks.

 

[unstopable4700]

yes it will have driftwood and possibly plants. but bb.

 

[Deepsouth]

yes it will have driftwood and possibly plants. but bb.

sounds like a plan. I may do the same.

 

[unstopable4700]

i like the look really. no dead spots the lighting looks better. and its always clean. works for me. but i love the driftwood soo gotta have it

 

[Davey_8313]

Mine is going to be bb, but w/ driftwood also. That is how my 75 is now...

 

[unstopable4700]

my 90 is first tank and all the rest are headed that way

 

[Camphilophus]

yeah I wouldn't take the gravel out of my african chiclid tank because they dig moving rocks around. That would eliminate half of the fun watching them keep house. I never see my Red devil, flowerhorn, and clown knife even touching the rocks. I have only had the Flowerhorn for one week though.

You must have never had a full grown red devil or flowerhorn. My 13" midas is moving gravel right now. They really enjoy moving gravel around. Like I said before, if you're going to have multiple large fish in a tank with a big bio-load go barebottom unless its going to be a "show tank." It makes it so much easier to siphon all the crap out of the bottom of the tank. Forgot to mention a big powerhead on barebottom tanks also works wonders for keeping the tank clean.

 

[unstopable4700]

no more siphioning bb as you can blow the crap into the filter

 

[itzshadow]

my LFS tells me to use bright gravel to bring out the colors in a flowerhorn, they also tell me its kinda what you like too, so pretty much to each his own

 

[Ill take that mean one]

bottomless all the way