Totally starting over

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Totally starting over!!

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Yo!! I have been thinking that it would be nice to completely redo my 37 gallon. I have been thinking about replacing the substrate with sand and replacing my 2 unhappy firemouths. So I was wondering....

#1> What colors of sand are usaully available at a hardware store??

#2> How long will I need to rinse the sand??

#3> I have a couple of fish in mind to replace the firemouths with a small type of loach and and some type of bottom to top dwelling fish that does good in small schools (not tetras! something little bigger!). I am looking for that kind of combo of fish; I'll consider any suggestions.

#4> A good FW cleaning crew??

Nothing else for the moment. All other suggestion will be helpful!! Thanks all!!
 
hey...

1) ivve heard you can get form fine silver yellow(play pit sand) thru orange(general building sand, which i have) to black...(pool filter sand??)

2)I replaced my substrate 2 weeks ago, a good trick off the guys here is to put it in a pillow case....i washed each "load" roughly 5 minutes...

3)how about some type of barb? tiger,cherry??

4)ive heard amano shrimp are good, and for sand substrate malaysian trumpet snails to till it over..

hth
 
They sell sand at a hardware store?I don't know much about sand but i can give a few suggestions on tankmates,loaches hide,you will seldomly see them school,barbs are good but they are shoalers,i prefer shrimps as cleaning crews to cories since cories don't clean food trapped in plants unlike shrimps but shrimps always leave behind empty shells
Here is the list-
8 tigers
a pair of kribs??
6 cories
3 or more shrimps

sounds too little,maybe you would prefer biotope ones
1 betta male,4 betta females
2 blue guorami


there are more choices though
 
Hey Silver... The store called Fins and Feathers out on West St are using sand blasting sand in their tanks which really looks good. It's fairly coarse grained and would even be good for planted tanks too with a little laterite in the bottom layer. I'd think the sand blasting sand would be quite cheap.
 
I went to Lowe's and bought their $2 play sand. I just finished putting in all the sand, after spending lots of time cleaning it thru a pillow case, and found out that the pH has started at 8.8!! Do you think this will drop over time or will I have to get something to drop the pH?? Please let me know!! Other than that, it looks really cool so far!!. BTW, once y'all were done with the pillow cases, what did you do with them?? I have sand all over mine.

Another thing, quick update on my krib fry, they are finally free swimming!! The parents have them out and they are eating!! I think I have anywhere between 30 to 40 fry!! I am so happy!!
 
Be prepared to get losses,a batch of fries usually gets some of the fries dying.
 
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