New Sand

[FishCrazy760]

Made the switch from gravel to sand, man what a difference. Still a little cloudy but its only been 30 minutes. I like the appearance of sand alot more lets see how the maintance is though.

 

[QuietPlotter]

How did you do that? Lol. Did you have fish and decor?

 

[FishCrazy760]

How did you do that? Lol. Did you have fish and decor?

Yes I did have fish and decor lol I put the fish in big rubbermade thing made for storage put my heater and a airwand. Then went got my hands dirty takin out old gravel, cleaned out the sand over and over then I cleaned it some more put it in the tank slowly I use all the old tank water again and kept my filter wet again total time about 4 hours

 

[QuietPlotter]

Wow, nice

 

[BHead707]

IME the sand was a lot easier to clean because the poo and stuff was all on the top not stuck in the million little crevasses between the gravel

 

[RedFlame]

Did you have any live plants to begin with? I'm typically a gravel substrate kind of guy but I've seen a few amazing looking setups with sand.

 

[Derekkaine]

I picked up some play sand at home depot 6bucks for about 70 lbs.

 

[FishCrazy760]

Did you have any live plants to begin with? I'm typically a gravel substrate kind of guy but I've seen a few amazing looking setups with sand.

No I didnt have any live plants. I have also seen very nice tanks with sand and live plants

 

[FishCrazy760]

I picked up some play sand at home depot 6bucks for about 70 lbs.

I also used play sand a tan color it took forever to clean but 50lbs for $3.76 well worth it

 

[Sharkbait54]

I use petco sand it might be more expensive but it's made for aquariums and I didn't have to clean it I just dumped it in the tank.

 

[Derekkaine]

The only thing I would be careful of is buying sand that could possibly raise your PH that is made for a "aquarium". I see this a lot at some box store pet shops.

 

[Sharkbait54]

Play sand raises your ph.

 

[Derekkaine]

Does it actually, mines stayed at 7.2. I dunno