Hi Everyone.
I'm starting up a new aquarium. I have blown my budget and want to have some beans left for plants so got exited by the cheap substrate sticky and then nearly fell off my chair when I read that a 10ltr bag of cat clay from tesco would only set me back £3something. So off I popped and picked up three bags for my 250ltr.
Having only had experience of substrates in my nano tanks (columbo straight through) I have been reading and reading about the cat litter route.
The biggest drawback from what I have read, and perhaps the only drawback as far as I am concerned (as I have been happily washing the dust off and soaking, so that's a non-issue for me) is that this stuff is light.
Does it plant ok and is it possible to hold a decent tank flow without blowing the stuff all around the aquarium?
I've seen lots of threads on the subject, but mainly from 2011-2015, so I guess an update from anyone who now has a couple of years use? Link in to your tank journals if you have one, or throw a pic onto this thread would be excellent please?
My other option I am thinking might be to mix this with some john innes no.3, then layer over a membrane as suggested in a different thread and then put a cap of something like Ecco complete or Flourite original over the top, much smaller cap so less of the expensive stuff needed.
My last option would be to bite the bullet and just spend out the money on 4 bags of aquarium substrate and be done with it! Haha!
Thanks for the help to all those that stop by and offer tips and tricks.
Kind regards
Richard
I'm starting up a new aquarium. I have blown my budget and want to have some beans left for plants so got exited by the cheap substrate sticky and then nearly fell off my chair when I read that a 10ltr bag of cat clay from tesco would only set me back £3something. So off I popped and picked up three bags for my 250ltr.
Having only had experience of substrates in my nano tanks (columbo straight through) I have been reading and reading about the cat litter route.
The biggest drawback from what I have read, and perhaps the only drawback as far as I am concerned (as I have been happily washing the dust off and soaking, so that's a non-issue for me) is that this stuff is light.
Does it plant ok and is it possible to hold a decent tank flow without blowing the stuff all around the aquarium?
I've seen lots of threads on the subject, but mainly from 2011-2015, so I guess an update from anyone who now has a couple of years use? Link in to your tank journals if you have one, or throw a pic onto this thread would be excellent please?
My other option I am thinking might be to mix this with some john innes no.3, then layer over a membrane as suggested in a different thread and then put a cap of something like Ecco complete or Flourite original over the top, much smaller cap so less of the expensive stuff needed.
My last option would be to bite the bullet and just spend out the money on 4 bags of aquarium substrate and be done with it! Haha!
Thanks for the help to all those that stop by and offer tips and tricks.
Kind regards
Richard