Wisey
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Hi All,
I'm trying to decide how much substrate to purchase. My aquarium is a TMC Signature 60x45x45. My layout is going to be visible from two sides, the front and the left, so my plan was to have a sand area at the front and also up the left hand side, there will be a few rocks, but nothing huge, ADA Amazonia will then form a gradual slope from the sand up to the back right corner, again with a few rocks in there, nothing massive, just some hardscape to add interest and borders between plants.
I sent The Green Machine an e-mail asking for advice on substrate, gave them the info above and just got back a generic answer telling me that I should purchase 9 litres of substrate for every 60 litres of aquarium volume and more if I want to bank it up steeply (I had already told them I did not want to bank it up steeply). Now this seems like a crock of s**t to me, aquarium volume takes in to account the height of the aquarium. As far as I am concerned, if I bought the TMC Signature 60x45x30 which is less volume, then I would need the same amount of substrate for the same layout as my 60x45x45. Their 9 litres per 60 litres of volume does not take in to account the fact that an aquarium could be taller but the substrate height is the same.
So, forgetting the height, with a base area of 60x45, taking in to account that around 15% to 20% of that base area will be rocks and sand, how much ADA Amazonia do I need? 18 litres just seems like way more than I would want to put in there. I just got a feeling that TGM were giving me a cut and paste generic answer which tells me I need 2 big bags instead of 1 big bag or 1 big bag and a small bag.
I'm trying to decide how much substrate to purchase. My aquarium is a TMC Signature 60x45x45. My layout is going to be visible from two sides, the front and the left, so my plan was to have a sand area at the front and also up the left hand side, there will be a few rocks, but nothing huge, ADA Amazonia will then form a gradual slope from the sand up to the back right corner, again with a few rocks in there, nothing massive, just some hardscape to add interest and borders between plants.
I sent The Green Machine an e-mail asking for advice on substrate, gave them the info above and just got back a generic answer telling me that I should purchase 9 litres of substrate for every 60 litres of aquarium volume and more if I want to bank it up steeply (I had already told them I did not want to bank it up steeply). Now this seems like a crock of s**t to me, aquarium volume takes in to account the height of the aquarium. As far as I am concerned, if I bought the TMC Signature 60x45x30 which is less volume, then I would need the same amount of substrate for the same layout as my 60x45x45. Their 9 litres per 60 litres of volume does not take in to account the fact that an aquarium could be taller but the substrate height is the same.
So, forgetting the height, with a base area of 60x45, taking in to account that around 15% to 20% of that base area will be rocks and sand, how much ADA Amazonia do I need? 18 litres just seems like way more than I would want to put in there. I just got a feeling that TGM were giving me a cut and paste generic answer which tells me I need 2 big bags instead of 1 big bag or 1 big bag and a small bag.
