colored gravel in a FO tank

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• Aug 17, 2004

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Anyone ever use it? Estes claims it is SW safe but I have never seen any tanks with it.
I have 50lbs of new black gravel and was wondering if it could be used in a FO tank.

 

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• Aug 18, 2004

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Anyone at all?

 

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• Aug 19, 2004

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was it used before? where did you get it?

 

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• Aug 19, 2004

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Never used. Still in the bags.
I have had it for quite a long time. It seems that at each holiday people seem to want to give me a bag of gravel when I have SW tanks.

 

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It won't hurt anything, but there are a few disadvantages:
1. It won't buffer. Calcareous substrates provide a bit of buffering, colored gravel won't.
2. The grain size is probably large enough to trap debris.