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Old 20-04-2003, 06:14 AM
Haywire
 
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Default Adding Substrate layers in established tanks

The only stuff I see in the stores locally are the 20kg bags and that has
the 5mm+ granules. I've never seen smaller granules, nor have I seen
smaller packaging, which sorta bites, I don't want to add another 10kg of
gravel to my tanks.

"Scott Lewis" wrote in message
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Haywire wrote:

you can also crush the florite can't you?


Have no idea how well that would work. I think you would end up with a

lot of
dust and fines. The Flourite is only 1-3mm anyway.

Scott




"Scott Lewis" wrote in message
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Phil Dietz wrote:

I have a 10 gallon tank already established with plants and fish.
The floor is plain gravel (blue !!) of a larger size.

I'd like to build up a layer of substrate underneath it without
disturbing the tank too much.

When you mix small gravel with large gravel doesn't the large gravel

tend
to rise to the top? You might try mixing some flourite with your

gravel
and stirring it up a bit to get the blue gravel back to the surface.

The
flourite seems to be lighter than gravel, though. Perhaps that is

just
my imagination there....

Anyway, that might be worth a try since the flourite is an excellent
growth medium.


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