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Help me choose my substrate
I am starting a new tank, and I need some help with selecting my
substrate. I have decided (based on past experience) that I need some sort of iron supplement in my tank, so I chose to do a partial substrate with Fluorite. In addition, I would like to use some white sand and pool gravel. I am hoping to get away with just one bag of Fluorite. (20 lbs.) I will layer the bottom approximately 3" with my substrate, with no undergravel filter, heater, etc... I will be building a high rock shelf in the entire background, and my plants will be all grasses. (with the possible exception of something that attaches to the rock shelf) My lighting is 110 watts, I have pressurized CO2, no fish for now, and it's a 45 gallon tank. (I have no water parameters right now, as it's not set up, but excepting the iron deficiency, my water has historically been well within all acceptable limits) Thanks alot! |
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Help me choose my substrate
You've answered your own question....
Fluorite....I have a 250L tank with a thick substrate (100% fluorite) and havn't looked back. I will never use anything else. Except perhaps Onyx (which is the same but black). Personally I would not bother layering the substrate. The fish will disturb it anyway and the fine sand will sink through the gaps in the fluorite and gravel and make their way to the bottom of the tank (well in theory they will). The only other solution would be to partition the base of the tank and have areas where ther fluorite will be concentrated (these being the places you put the plants that need it the most). Personally I would go for 100% fluorite. "Laulose" wrote in message om... I am starting a new tank, and I need some help with selecting my substrate. I have decided (based on past experience) that I need some sort of iron supplement in my tank, so I chose to do a partial substrate with Fluorite. In addition, I would like to use some white sand and pool gravel. I am hoping to get away with just one bag of Fluorite. (20 lbs.) I will layer the bottom approximately 3" with my substrate, with no undergravel filter, heater, etc... I will be building a high rock shelf in the entire background, and my plants will be all grasses. (with the possible exception of something that attaches to the rock shelf) My lighting is 110 watts, I have pressurized CO2, no fish for now, and it's a 45 gallon tank. (I have no water parameters right now, as it's not set up, but excepting the iron deficiency, my water has historically been well within all acceptable limits) Thanks alot! |
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