TheAmlinals
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- Jan 31, 2013
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That's the thing, won't my loaches be thrashing around in it? I just picture them going crazy, being all "finally! Sand! Oooo ahhh that's the stuff!" Lol.
Ok. Thanks everybody. I probably will end up changing my next upgrade tank to sand then.
But just out of curiosity, are there other softer or more rounded-edged substrate options like I mentioned? Maybe I could try one of them out in this tank in the meantime.
I think what you want is sand.
Well, yeah, but you want something with round edges in a small diameter for your loaches. Most of the specialized substrate is for specific uses like plant substrate, aragonite substrate, etc. Coral or aragonite doesn't fit your criteria as it is jagged and definitely not what you want. Any plant substrates you might look at are pretty impractical from a cost perspective just to "try out for the mean time". You could try soil, but soil is a sand/clay/organic matter and that doesn't sound practical to place in a already filled tank. If you are going to do that, why don't you just do sand?I understand, and I agreed.
What I was asking, is if other softer things do exist. Surely there are other things, more than two options (gravel or sand), that people CAN put on the bottoms of tanks...?
Aw, see, I want to see my guys all happy and having fun like that, playing peekaboo. Lol.
Just out of curiosity again, regardless of price and practicality, is there any brand of sand that you don't have to rinse forever first? Like that you could basically just add straight from the bag?
(Explanation: I have a really old sensitive septic system, and its a really wet time of year here, with melting snow and/or rain, plus we're in dense clay soil here, so its really not good timing for running a lot of water down my drain, as things can get backed up as it is with laundry and showers and whatnot, but its also too cold to be running the hose outside yet too.)
I don't know what it is but they still haven't got into the sand. It's like they don't understand they can burrow in it lol