no more tile botom = boring!

[JeremyXXXX]

When I picked up my new marble motoro I picked up some blackworms since that's what John at ECZS had her eating on and I noticed a bunch of worms getting in the cracks of the tile and pushing themselves under the tile as well. I didn't want all these worms accumulating in my tank and even though I vacuum basically every other day they were not coming out from between the cracks. I did a water change today and removed the tile and wow there was a lot of crap built up in between and under my tiles. Just a warming to people with tiled tanks and people thinking about doing it. You can vacuum all you want but there is still good be a lot of build up.

Now that I have no tiles in my tank it looks boring as hell but it's a whole lot cleaner and easier to keep clean I must say. Any suggestions on how to make my bottom black even though I already have it filled and stocked?

 

[turkeyboy85]

Some sand lol nice marble

 

[JeremyXXXX]

I wanna do sand but I don't know when I had sand in here with my smaller ray pups last year it was a disaster got in my filter destroyed my impeller on my FX5. What kind of sand do you ray keepers use?

 

[turkeyboy85]

I used 3m color quartz

 

[DB junkie]

Can you paint the bottom? I've painted several glass tanks...... Looks great.

Looks like you can crawl under that stand.... lol

 

[DB junkie]

Estes sand here.....

 

[B_IN_SD]

Moon sand here but I would not use it with a canister it's way too light.

 

[JeremyXXXX]

yea that was my problem with the white sand I used to have, too light. I have moon sand in my clown loach tank and even those little guys cloud up the water just by swimming around so fast haha

 

[mzhantsche]

I say black sand. Not moon sand. looks great. I have been running a fx5 with black sand for about 8 months and had no problems. Ive only taken the perpeller apart once in that time. Cleaned it. I always rinse the sand out of the bottem of the canister when i do 3 month canister cleaning.

 

[dhjr0915]

I like bare bottom but if u go with sand I would go with the 3m quartz or pool filter sand...