Ok, when I started this tank out I just use the plain ole gravel. Dark Blue in color. The more I got into the hobby, I decided to try to remove all plastics and go with live plants and driftwood. I covered the blue gravel with laterite in a pattern like the lines on a football field and then covered with a layer of white sand.
Now, after a few vac's and corys burrowing in for a nap, the gravel is showing throught in parts. My plants have started decent root systems, and my pygmy chain sword has spread from 1 original to 4 tufts in a line.
I am wanting to remove the gravel, and am wondering if there is anything I could do with a possible mixture of sand to darken it, as it is white sand currently and the fish colors, while good now. I have seen too many posts saying a dark substrate is better.
Any sugggestions would be helpful. And, I am not adverse to getting my arms wet and sifting sand slowly in the tank to get the gravel out.
Current stock is 10 neons, 5 black skirt tetra, 4 bronze cories.
Thanks,
Walker.
Now, after a few vac's and corys burrowing in for a nap, the gravel is showing throught in parts. My plants have started decent root systems, and my pygmy chain sword has spread from 1 original to 4 tufts in a line.
I am wanting to remove the gravel, and am wondering if there is anything I could do with a possible mixture of sand to darken it, as it is white sand currently and the fish colors, while good now. I have seen too many posts saying a dark substrate is better.
Any sugggestions would be helpful. And, I am not adverse to getting my arms wet and sifting sand slowly in the tank to get the gravel out.
Current stock is 10 neons, 5 black skirt tetra, 4 bronze cories.
Thanks,
Walker.
