Rcguerra
Aquarium Advice FINatic
So today I had a casual conversation inside PetCo with an older lady that was buying about 1/2 dozen Brazilian Swords. Since I am from Brazil, we started talking about biodiversity etc, and the lady seems to be quite knowledgeable about planted tanks.
However, she mentioned that for the past 7 years or so, she has been using gardening soil mix enriched with Osmocote plus (and something equivalent she was using back in the days, butt I was not familiar with its commercial name) under a 2 inch topping of river sand and her plants were just amazing. She even mentioned her gold fish do well under these circumstances.
Is this safe for fish? I would love to have some real soil for the plants, but I am quite new to the hobby and it just sounded...a little fishy.
However, she mentioned that for the past 7 years or so, she has been using gardening soil mix enriched with Osmocote plus (and something equivalent she was using back in the days, butt I was not familiar with its commercial name) under a 2 inch topping of river sand and her plants were just amazing. She even mentioned her gold fish do well under these circumstances.
Is this safe for fish? I would love to have some real soil for the plants, but I am quite new to the hobby and it just sounded...a little fishy.