substrate ideas QWIK!

[deeboi]

what up all? ideas i need on some substrate...i seen ppl doing new things as far a covering the bottom of the tank. trying to see which is preferred and why...i seen no bottom, bare bottom(), tiles, wrapping black fabric, sand..etc.

i considering these and if any 1 got picks, cool..

 

[G4series]

SAND! It's natural and looks great with everything. oh and if you wanna throw in flounder/rays

what i did was buy the play sand from lowes and cleaned it reallllllly good... i just put it in a bucket and kept the hose flowing in it. its only 3 dollars and its almost white.. just put your filters pretty low with a good circulation. the circulation should kick the poop up and keep the sand down. the filter will clean it when its kicked up. should keep your tank clean

 

[deeboi]

i agree, i got sand in my tanks right now. don't rays need special sand so they don't get scratched? basically i want to see other options like tiles. and the cloth ones.

 

[G4series]

oh and idk i dont own rays >.<

 

[deeboi]

still looking.. no one here got some unique bottom? tiles, bare bottoms, or cloth?? looking for pros and cons.

 

[packer43064]

I had this. It was for a frog tank. I got bored and didn't want just rocks so did this. Only crappy thing was debris got underneath it. A simple gravel vac once a week was mandatory that's all.

Unfortunately the only pics I could find of the frog tank.

 

[packer43064]

Random BB tank I found for the tadpoles. I had BB fish tanks though, looked like crap though.

 

[deeboi]

yes i'm thinking tile because it's hard to take the sand back out. also i've seen the bottom full black on some ppls tanks, looking for those.