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The water in my area runs a ph of around 7.2 and is fairly hard. (Not sure of exact hardness)
None the less, a friend of mine is breeding them in straight declorinated tap water.
I should hopefully be getting some of his stock in a few weeks as well.
-Cory
Thanks Mike!
I am thinking I may make some disguised planters and maybe go with a lower depth of sand.
Or see who in our local club has a large amounts of MTS snails they would part ways with as they will do a lot of stirring the sand without disturbing the tank mates.
I wanted to go...
I was refering to sand, not gravel. Gravel I never have issues with, sand I have had issues with. I have a good amount of plants rooted in 2 different tanks containing sand as the substrate and still had gases forming even when the depth in both tanks run maybe about 1 1/4".
Hey Brian,
Thanks for the great info and I will make sure to put it to good use.
I found out I still have an unopened 20# bag of Super Naturals sand and think I will be using it vs the pool filter sand.
The guy I am getting them from says he on uses about 1/2" of sand to keep it from...
Hello,
So this is actually my first post to the forum and hopefully it will be another forum community I become fairly active with! I'm a big plant freak, but like my fish too..
Anyways.. I am completely new to Apistos, but have had Kribs for a while and currently have a pair raising...