Lev
Aquarium Advice Activist
This is a question for the future, and those of you seeing my last thread will get why:
Is it a bad/good idea to organise different textures of substrate into zones?
I was thinking eventually of adding 5 or so dwarf chain loach - but my current substrate is a coarse gravel. I was scared that completely changing it for a finer substrate would start the tank cycling again.
I thought about replacing roughly half with something finer, and then later replacing the rest. However I've been thinking a lot about natural lake and river beds, and how differing densities of gravel, silt etc will end up being deposited with currents, forming patterns sometimes.
Is it possible to keep some of my current substrate, along side a finer one also? I've tried to uplaod an image to try and demonstrate my proposed tank floor - (basically the same layout as currently but with different substrates)
PS: DCL and mollies... ok tank mates?
Is it a bad/good idea to organise different textures of substrate into zones?
I was thinking eventually of adding 5 or so dwarf chain loach - but my current substrate is a coarse gravel. I was scared that completely changing it for a finer substrate would start the tank cycling again.
I thought about replacing roughly half with something finer, and then later replacing the rest. However I've been thinking a lot about natural lake and river beds, and how differing densities of gravel, silt etc will end up being deposited with currents, forming patterns sometimes.
Is it possible to keep some of my current substrate, along side a finer one also? I've tried to uplaod an image to try and demonstrate my proposed tank floor - (basically the same layout as currently but with different substrates)
PS: DCL and mollies... ok tank mates?