"LeighMo" wrote in message
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For the base, Flourite Plant Substrate combined with sand / small gravel
(about a 50/50 mixture). This will be layered to about 2 inches in
depth.
On top of this will be a layer of fine sandblasting sand (hopefully I can
find black).. about an inch in depth. Can anyone offer any suggestions
for
improvements?

Why not use 100% Flourite? It would be a bit more expensive to use all
Flourite, but it's worth it. You'll never have to worry about the
substrate
again, and will be able to replant/rearrange your tank whenever you want,
without having to worry about messing up a layered substrate.

Flourite, IMO, is the best substrate there is for a beginner.

I'm changing to a similar setup to Reg but I'm keeping a couple of albino
cories and otos so would 2" flourite on bottom and 1" plain gravel on top be
ok for a planted tank to prevent damage to my cories. I'm thinking the
layers should stay where they are unless the flourite is sucked to the
surface when I vaccuum the gravel. Would the layers stay where they're
supposed to? Would the plants be able to burrow through the gravel to the
flourite?