Sand vs Crushed Coral

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dirtyblacksocks;1787229; said:
Put an oscar and some loaches in a bare bottom tank and you'll see how much the loaches leave behind - they're good at rooting around and getting food out of cracks, but they're still messy eaters.

Cory cats on the other hand eat just about everything but poop. Just my experience - if you like the look of loaches then they're fine for a cleanup crew, it's not like they'll be making things worse. Just thought I'd throw that out there =)
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I know as a fact that loaches don't like bare tanks though. They spend most of their time picking around the gravel and like you said trying to uproot plants. I used to have a little 15 gallon tank with just different species of little loaches, I never saw a spec of food when I did water changes ever two weeks. Thanks for your imput though, I think bare tanks are interesting, never tried one myself.
 
Robertshadow;1787741; said:
I know as a fact that loaches don't like bare tanks though. They spend most of their time picking around the gravel and like you said trying to uproot plants. I used to have a little 15 gallon tank with just different species of little loaches, I never saw a spec of food when I did water changes ever two weeks. Thanks for your imput though, I think bare tanks are interesting, never tried one myself.
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I think bare tanks suck except for breeding and grow out tanks...
 
TheFanatic;1787398; said:
Oh, and I will never set up another tank with anything other than sand as substrate. I absolutely love it. I've been keeping tanks for more than 20 years. I will never go back to gravel...
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cool
 
Robertshadow;1789297; said:
To each his own I guess
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I just think that the aquascaping is equally important as the fish. I want to show the complete package. I want to see territory boundaries and defense of such, breeding zones, natural behavior in terms of hiding and feeding.

My fave fish are plecos and Synos. Putting them in a bare tank just isn't right...
 
TheFanatic;1790103; said:
I just think that the aquascaping is equally important as the fish. I want to show the complete package. I want to see territory boundaries and defense of such, breeding zones, natural behavior in terms of hiding and feeding.

My fave fish are plecos and Synos. Putting them in a bare tank just isn't right...
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I don't really think there is an objectively right or wrong way, I've seen catfish do well in bare tanks.
 
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