Re: Sand on the bottom..........

"Jeffrey St. Clair, Ph.D." <info@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Are you referring to play type sand?

No, not the play sand. It's too fine. I'm thinking about builders sand
which 
is a little more coarse, cheaper, darker in color and used to mix to make 
concrete.

I'd avoid it as it has clay and really
> hard to rinse out.  You could do just sand and then you just shake your 
> python an inch from it and it will suck up the mulm.  I wouldn't mix the

> two substrates as they will mix into a sand/gravel mess.  Sand is great 
> though, because of it's density, nothing sinks in like with gravel, etc.

I was afraid it would go anaerobic from fine mulm if I used just sand or a

sand mix and didn't or couldn't vac it.
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