Need help choosing right substrate

[strollo22]

Find a local place that sells sandblasting sands. They will have several different grades "size of grains" of sand.
My local supplier has it in baby food jars to show the different grades of sand. I paid $11.99 per 100 lb bag for natural looking large grain sand. They called it washed and graded for size. It had minimal dust.

I'll definitely look into that


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[strollo22]

I use the Quickcrete pfs and find it really large and heavy....but I also have top skimming overflows and my canisters have sediment traps in the bottom. My Jag and Argentea constantly move it from front to back and it drops really fast....

Not sure what brand you've tried but I've switched all my tanks to it because of it's larger size.

Yea but i'm talking about a 14" bottom dwelling fish that shakes his head in the sand ferociously lol


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[strollo22]

i use quickrete and my rays dig in it constantly and i find very littl in my filters

Do they "thrash"? Or kind of just bury themselves in it?


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[Jc1119]

^^ my 12" Pleco does the same thing.....yours might have mine beat though lol

found this vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xREIbGGT-_I

 

[UnstoppableJayD]

well my bigger ray is about 11 inches buries himself then rushes uo for food vigorusly shaking the sand off ...lol so yea sand gets kicked up.

 

[strollo22]

^^ my 12" Pleco does the same thing.....yours might have mine beat though lol

found this vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xREIbGGT-_I

That ones a slow eater compared to mine. I wish i had video. It's like a shark thrashing it's prey around and sand flying everywhere lol


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[strollo22]

well my bigger ray is about 11 inches buries himself then rushes uo for food vigorusly shaking the sand off ...lol so yea sand gets kicked up.

Maybe i'll give the quickrete a shot.


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