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I loved Gravel.

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si walker

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Last night i said to my partner "hey remember that tank (we) I had with gravel and one big bit of bog wood with some moss"?
We had one lovely Shubunkin and a little internal filter. Probably 30 litres.
I got all that stuff from a small shop in Holborn London back in the day, 25 years ago. Loved that family run business. Probably another sandwich shop now.
Anyway.. I really miss that gravel vibe. I have Tropica Soil and its bloody boring at best.

Has anyone put a really good substrate down then capped it with gravel?
Maybe a fine one first (sand....to stop nutrients seeping through) then loads of lovely gravel.

Pretty sure i had Pea Gravel back in the day, but i am wondering if theres one a bit smaller? Getting the larger stuff is easy now. Wio and Dennerle do some really nice biotope specialist stones.

Anyway lets see what you got. Bet quite a few of you lot have similar fond memories?

Cheers.

Si
 
I have grown to dislike gravel in favour of sand. The main reason is the undesired mulm and debris that is trapped over time under the gravel. This isn't a problem with sand and additionally sand locks in the nutrient rich substate that one may use to grow plants.
 
I had basic gravel in my nano recently, no soil or sand, was pleasantly surprised at the plant growth

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I do remember the mulm, yes.
Im going through that now with my Tropica soil after 3 years and bba is creeping in.
So i am trying to clean it up using the 2hr Aquarist method of poofing the soil with a poofer (turkey baster) whilst getting rid of the crap at the same time.
Guess its okay to lock it in. Anyway i remember it being easy to suck out?

Aqua360 said:
I had basic gravel in my nano recently, no soil or sand, was pleasantly surprised at the plant growth
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so did you put some nutrients under the gravel before planting.
Sods law if you had spent 40 quid on ADA soil it would have been an algae bomb!
looks great!
 
si walker said:
I do remember the mulm, yes.
Im going through that now with my Tropica soil after 3 years and bba is creeping in.
So i am trying to clean it up using the 2hr Aquarist method of poofing the soil with a poofer (turkey baster) whilst getting rid of the crap at the same time.
Guess its okay to lock it in. Anyway i remember it being easy to suck out?


so did you put some nutrients under the gravel before planting.
Sods law if you had spent 40 quid on ADA soil it would have been an algae bomb!
looks great!
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Nothing, just gravel, with Tropica liquid fertiliser dosed weekly!

Cheers!
 

Natural Gravels | Hugo Kamishi

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Available fairly wide spread. Have a look what your local fish shop has in stock too - they often have bags of 'plain' gravel.

You can put tropica substrate (looks like dry powdered mud rather than the soil that looks like brown gravel) under fine gravel.
 
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