Khuli Loaches and Flourite???

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Fishstix3000

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Nov 23, 2008
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I have a regular run of the mill black gravel tank. I want to get a herd of khuli loaches. I want to switch to a better substrate for the khulis, so I checked out my LFS and they only had black flourite, no black sand. It looks awfully sharp for the khulis. I checked out old threads and couldn't find a clear answer.

Will khulis be happy in flourite? Will they be injured? Does anyone have experience with khulis in flourite?

Would they be better in the gravel I already have?

Is sand a better substrate all around than flourite?

I have some really easy plants. They don't necessarily need flourite to do well.

I also have cory cats and a pleco on the bottom. Guppies and Platies up top. And a few mystery/apple snails.

Thanks for any input!!
 
Uh, I don't know what plants "need" flourite. I just know that it self proclaims to be great for planted tanks.

Is Eco Complete similar in texture to flourite?
 
My kuhlis don't really dig in pool sand so they may be ok but flourite seems rough textured. Pool sand is less expensive than flourite too.

I have other loaches on Eco complete without problem but have never tried Flourite. I have some on Flourite Black Sand, other than being hard to clean the loaches seem ok.
 
Flourite is hard to clean? They left that out at the fish store. They showed me a tank they had set up with it and said it was the best stuff they have and how awesome it is.
 
I think it is the Flourite Black Sand is hard to clean. I have some in one of my tanks and you can't do water changes the way one would normally perform them. Usually I twist the siphon part of the tubing straight into the substrate to suck out any accumulated waste. But you can't do that with sand--it gets sucked up into the siphon cuz its so light.
 
The smoother the substrate the better. Even if they don't dig, they still scrounge around for food, which can be hard on their little whiskers.

I used pool filter sand in my aquarium. My plants are growing like crazy. If you want black sand though, you'll probably have to do some searching or order online, because I doubt you'll find black pool filter sand anywhere.
 
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