Gravels

[Andrew Butler]

I'm looking for some natural looking gravels that really do come in a nice range of sizes.

By natural I mean without any bright whites any yellows and quite grey looking
The dennerle platahunter river is about as close as I've found but the S which is supposed to be 4-8mm is more 8mm+.
A lot of the gravels I have seen are a bit too fine and get blown around by the filter a bit too easy.

https://dennerle.com/en/products/aq...ural-gravel/plantahunter-natural-gravel-river

Suggestions welcome please.

 

[goldscapes]

This works well in my tank, it comes in different sizes and shades, some of them way too garish for planted scapes but also some more natural hues. It’s a Maidenhead Aquatics product so best to view in-store as they don’t have the full range on their website.
https://www.fishkeeper.co.uk/post/new-aqua-range-aqua-substrates
The grain size I have is about 3mm, which is advised here for topping soil based substrates as it allows good water circulation. It’s also the perfect weight to be agitated by a syphon but not get sucked up so probably wouldn’t get blown about by a filter either.

 

[Andrew Butler]

Thanks @goldscapes I will have a look next time I can get to one

 

[foxfish]

How much do you want and is it grey that you want?

 

[Andrew Butler]

How much do you want and is it grey that you want?

'Grey' is probably not the best descriptor, below is a picture of the Dennerle one dry and aside fro the odd yellow in there is quite okay looking.
It's for an aquascaper 600 so footprint of 600 x 500; it would be to fill out the whole aquarium though and no other substrate.

Something I should have said before; local supplies I found before from the trade/DIY/garden centres were no good though.