What sand should I use? Black, white, or a natural tan/brown?

[michael]

going to go in my 300g, check my signature to see whats housed in there! Or should I use a different style gravel? Fed up with the black and white

 

[koliveira]

Tan and black are easy to keep clean. I have one tank with white sand and it is so fine its hard to siphon with out removing to much!!

 

[FishHeadSoup]

i vote for tan & brown

 

[TankBuster]

My solution to siphoning the sand is this, I have black sand in my tank and what I do is use a 1" hose and just hover over the sand to pick up debris. The 1" hose uses alot of vaccuum so it works well. I would go with black and brown gravel by the way. That looks good.

 

[catfish]

id go with black it will bring out the color of your fish alot more

 

[zekni]

I definately think this is based on personal opinion. I'm not a big fan of white sand, but have had both tan and black in my tanks. I prefer the black.

 

[redtailfool]

either black or white. But id go for black.

 

[eh1421]

lava rock is the bomb

 

[yuppa]

I would recommend black or tan..
White gets dirty easy..

I've ran tanks with black sand and white coral substrates..

I found sand was too much of a pain to clean, I often ended up with lots of sand in my siphon bucket..

I prefer bare tank now

 

[cyang]

don't use sand. if your fish dont need it or if they are farm raised, **** sand. dont use anything. using substrate slightly raises the difficulty of any and every aquarium. bare to plants. otherwise dont use anything b/c it is ridiculous. substrate is stupid.