Flourite is awesome. I just black flourite sand as the primary substrate in all of my tanks and get great growth. Did you end up using it?
Redoing My 75 Gallon
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Nope, Clay, dirt and then play sand. No flourite. Flourite is what I had previously, dirt works better.
Bubbles release from the substrate about every couple of minutes. So far its not harming the fish at all.
Tropicalfishking;5009191; said:Nope, Clay, dirt and then play sand. No flourite. Flourite is what I had previously, dirt works better.
Flourite is clay, shaped like gravel or sand. Didn't have much luck with it? What happened?
It worked alright. I didn't really like the orange look it gave to my tank. The flourtie didn't have enough nutrients in it to systane the tank without supplemental dosing. There is more nutrients in a dirt substrate for the plants, less work for me to do and the dirt will last decades. Flourite, only a couple of years.
Oh, I'm using all black flourite and dosing leaf zone/excel. That's probably why our results have differed so much. I'm very happy with it, but we'll see if I'm still happy in a few years. I hear that because it is porous clay, it won't ever stop "working". I'll get back to you in 10 years and let you know how it's doing ;-)
15+ black neons, 8+ emerald green cories, 2 platinum Angelfish, 3 otos, and 3 albino pristila tetras.
Should probably update this thing...
Everything is doing great except I ran into a road block.
The whole point of dirt is to have it decompose and release nutrients for the plants to use. Now... when you use sand, no oxygen can get down into the substrate and you basically get one big anearobic chunk of substrate and your tank crashes.... this happened to me! But I caught it before the big crash and switched half of the sand for gravel (doing the other half later) and everything is bouncing back.
So, when you are dirting your tank, don't use sand, use gravel.
Everything is doing great except I ran into a road block.
The whole point of dirt is to have it decompose and release nutrients for the plants to use. Now... when you use sand, no oxygen can get down into the substrate and you basically get one big anearobic chunk of substrate and your tank crashes.... this happened to me! But I caught it before the big crash and switched half of the sand for gravel (doing the other half later) and everything is bouncing back.
So, when you are dirting your tank, don't use sand, use gravel.
