dbcb314;2413085; said:
For real. I bought 150# of sand for my new tank. Washed a bucket and poured it into the tank and I didn't like it. Don't get me wrong for some things it looks great. Maybe it'll grow on me.
The risks of bite size gravel?
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For real. I bought 150# of sand for my new tank. Washed a bucket and poured it into the tank and I didn't like it. Don't get me wrong for some things it looks great. Maybe it'll grow on me.
Found someone selling 2 5galllon buckets of black gravel for cheap on craigslist so I am going to take the chance...
*crosses fingers*
*crosses fingers*
personally i would go with sand just because- what if the bichirs make it for years without issue... and then something happens. it'd just be all that extra time to allow you to get even more attached to them and make a death even more painful, particularly when its something simple that could have been avoided. i just think its an unnecessary risk.
I thought gravel would hurt the bichirs stomach. I would go with small gravel stones, then if you want, get bigger in time so they don't get it, stuck. Or just go completly big so they can't even fit it in their mouth.
thats not a bad idea either, really big gravel... "rocks" lol. food falling through the cracks could pose a problem so what you could do is have a feeding area, like a bowl or something where you always put the food. a bowl sounds kinda ugly though so what you could do is take some larger pieces of slate and use aquarium silicone to glue them together to form a "bowl" that looks natural. you could even think of it as a roman amphitheater where the little chopped earthworms go to do battle with the big bad bichirs lol. you know, something that might strike your imagination. have fun with it.
