Sand vs. Gravel

[ITHURTZ]

Home depot play sand in my 330gal

White pool filter sand in the snaps tank last year

Black moon sand in the gf 55gal

Pool filter sand in a hex qt tank

Black gravel/ white gravel mix to get the color difference in my old 55 setup

Iv tried all 3 colors, black makes them stand out the best, but play sand is just waaayy more natural.

 

[BODYDUB]

Sand just looks so beautiful............

 

[ironside]

Sand all the time for me as it looks so natural.

 

[Overnight_Pet_Supplies]

Get ready to have a noisy filter. After a while the sand grinds down the magnet on the impeller.

 

[sikoko]

sand ruined my filter so i would say no

 

[Snowflake311]

I have sand in all my tanks. Had gravel will never go back. I don't have any filter problems. You turn your filter off if you are going to be messing with the sand. Or don't keep the intake tube too low where sand gets kicked up in it.

With sand your tank is cleaner. Sure you see the poop more but when cleaning you can get all. With gravle no matter how well you vacuum you can never get it all out of there. with sand all gunk stays on top for easy cleaning.

 

[Warborg]

Some of my fish are diggers, my concern with sand would be if they would eat it. I've always had gravel and intend to always keep it.

 

[aquascaper93]

sand i get mine at lowes i also saw some silica based sand 100 lbs for $8.00 pretty cool

 

[dre205]

Yea i went to lowes and got 2 bag of play sand for 8 bucks(100lbs) much better than paying 20 at petsmart for a 20lb bag. I will try to upload some pics of my 55 i might put the rest in my 10 and 29 gallon tanks. We will see

 

[Citrinellus]

Yea i went to lowes and got 2 bag of play sand for 8 bucks(100lbs) much better than paying 20 at petsmart for a 20lb bag. I will try to upload some pics of my 55 i might put the rest in my 10 and 29 gallon tanks. We will see

Make sure you rinse it in a bucket really good emphasized on really good.