Using sand as substrate.

[gordonw]

also if you go with sand, heavily planted and the addition of malaysian trumpet snails will help to keep the sand "mixed" or stirred to avoid any gas pockets. On top of that you can also add california blackworms to aid in not only the stirring process but will add a live food source for your fish to hunt (blackworms burrow in sand and stick out a portion of their body at times) which is a win/win situation i'd say

 

[Annageckos]

I use play sand in my planted tanks and it looks great. I just use root fert tabs for the plants that need them. It is also ver easy to keep clean.

 

[mes1234]

wonderful responses. Thank you all for responding. I think I will use 100% sand as substrate.

 

[mikeb210]

You could also use quality substrate in areas where you want to grow plants and use sand everywhere else. Look on the AGA Aquascaping contest's site for some good examples of this.

 

[Krilorn]

You could also use quality substrate in areas where you want to grow plants and use sand everywhere else. Look on the AGA Aquascaping contest's site for some good examples of this.

My tank just dosent look as good as i thought i did after spending a hour browsing through that :wall:

 

[svaha]

:iagree: I know, humbling isn't it.