Sand or gravel or Bare bottom

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
gravel traps food to rot under it. ive switched to pool filter sand and will never use gravel again. uneaten food just lays atop the sand for the fish to eat later
 
I actually run one of each. A bare bottom 10 (for raising feeders), a 20H with natural "river" gravel that's heavily planted and a 40B with PFS

They each have their place. Bare bottom is easy to keep clean but looks messier. Sand is my current/new favorite otherwise as, like said before, debris stays stays on top and is easy to clean also. Gravel traps debris most and I don't think I'll do another gravel tank in the future
 
Naturaul gravel about one inch in the tank is the way to go for me. Sand ruined my aquaclear 110/and is a pain to vacum. Barebottom just looks horrible to me.
 
Ur siphon must have been to low or u had fine grain sand, my ac110 intake is 20" above my Pfs, I've never found a particle of sand in my impeller or housing, my fx5 intake is 1" off the sand, same story.



Go S. Vettel #1 rb8
 
It depends what fish you have and what color is better for them. If you have fish like geos or bichirs, they benefit from having sand. Geos need sand to sift for food. I bought geos from a guy who had them in a bare bottom tank and it just didn't look right because they're earth eaters and they didn't have any earth to eat. Personally, I like black sand (3M Quartz) but when I had it in a tank full of Indonesian Tiger Datnoids, it made all of them turn black. Changing substrate color fixed that. I would use either 3M black quartz sand or pool filter sand from Leslie's pool supply, both look very nice.
 
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