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I am starting the set up of a 150 tommorow. It will house two festae red terrors. For substrate I am thinking 50 lbs of pool sand from Home Depot and 125 lbs of river pea gravel from a local stone supply wherehouse ($3.75 for 75 lbs:D ). Does this sound good? Any other suggestion? That pea gravel is rather large but I figured the fish will get big enough to deal with it.
 
The festae may dig and really kick the stuff up so you may want to rethink that. I'd only use it as a base though if you did use it. About 175 pounds should do you just fine though. There's alot of exceptions to this rule, but about 1-1.5 lbs per gallon keeps things about right. You never end up low with this and if you have a bit more than you have a bit more.
 
I was going to put the sand down first and put the gravel on top I thought that it would settle together and kind of break up the scenery so to speak and offset the larger size of the river gravel and the darker red color. More of an aesthetics thing but if you think they will kick it up to much I'll forget it I'm not really that set on it. I was going to put down so much because I have 100lbs in my ninety and the fish in there have dug all of the way to the bottom of the tank I thought I would give them a little more of a buffer.
 
Yeah that's a good idea. What I know about festae is just from what I've read in books and from here. I'd wait and see if someone else will chime in.
 
I have them growing out in a 20 right now and they don't seem to be that in to digging, but they are still definately juveniles. I haven't really read anything about them being huge diggers either. Maybe someone who has kept adults can add some advice?
 
This might help out a bit.

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