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

"Larry Blanchard" <lblanch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:pan.2007.10.08.23.13.01.265559@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:00:51 -0500, Reel McKoi wrote:
>
>> I'm about to set up the other 55g tank in the sunroom. Because it'll be
>> heavily planted I was wondering about adding rough builders sand to the
>> gravel.  The question is.... how do you vac the gravel without sucking
up
>> the sand?  Or is that not a problem?
>
> If the tank will be heavily planted you won't be doing much vacuuming
> anyway :-).
>
> And I know I've said it before, but the best homemade substrate I've
found
> is the coarse "tube sand" or "traction sand" with the really fine
> particles sifted out.  More like fine gravel than sand.  My plants seem
to
> love it.  And it's cheap :-).
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Are you talking about the stuff in bags called "builders sand" used to mix

concrete?  I haven't heard of it called traction or tube sand.  They may
be 
the same product.  Where did you buy it?  True, plants do make vacuuming
the 
bottom difficult but fear the bottom will become a nitrate factory if not 
vacc'ed at all.
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RM....
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