Black sand - Is this suitable? advice and help please.

[murph]

I've ben after some Black substrate for my planted tank and have came across this 'volcanic' sand from an aggregates wholesaler:

http://www.specialistaggregates.com/san ... p-214.html at £30 per 20kg

As I'm new to this, I'm unsure as to the suitability of this sand? I intend to dose fertilizer through the water column using the EI method. should i be putting something else down underneath this?

Will this sand be to fine for use in a planted tank? They do do a coarser version. Ideally I'd like to leave some substrate unplanted for a few corys to play around in (dunno if they would uproot the plants in the tank?)

I'm also wanting something cost effective as its a 260l tank 100 x 50 x (however deep my substrate should be?) I have some pretty heavy rocks picked out for hardscape.


thanks



stevie

 

[ceg4048]

Hi,
It's always better to get a nutritious substrate, especially if this will be a non-CO2 enriched tank, but is not strictly necessary if you will be dosing the water column appropriately. If the price is right there is no reason that you can't use this stuff.

Cheers,