the sand is play sand, i rinsed ot for 3 hours....... 50lbs in this tank.
i love the bichir, in fact if i could only have 1 fish it would be the bichir, i bought him when he was just a little worm at 2". he goe on little hunger strikes in which he wont eat unliess i offer sumthin new.... im runnin out of foods....................
when i set up the tank i just piled the rocks in, staggered the plants and poured in sand. i like the way it turned out, alot better than if i had tried to make it look good. it was going to be an african biotope, but i fell inlove with the NGT.
thnx for all the comments