Best substrate for a fuge???

[billy302]

I am setting up a fuge for my tank and I want to know what is best. I've heard that some people use mud instead of sand?? What do you all recomend? Thanks!

Bill

 

[Flsprophet2]

I myself use argonite sand. You want to have at least a 4" sandbed for the nitrification process. I have never used mud since I am still fairly new to this. Hopefully someone with experience with mud will reply. HTH

 

[Thumper]

I'm setting up my fuge next week with a 4 inch sand bed and lr rubble. I'm not familiar with the mud set up but all the really nice tanks I have seen were using a dsb.

 

[Jonathan G.]

yea im gonna set up a 20g and make it into a refugium and use some south down sand i got at home depot and have a DSB with a bunch of LRubble and some cheato.