In my latest tank, I use green & gray gravel flooring pinnacles in a canyon leading out onto a beach using Torpedo Beach Sand. The company putting out this substrate has a variety of mediums. As it promised, the Torpedo Beach Sand is easy maintenance. They instruct that the TB Sand requires no or only light surface vacuuming. A month in I was surprised to find only a light amount deitrus on the surface and no drek anywhere deeper. So far so good. The only way I had noticed the light amount of deitrus was when I was looking very closely.
This particulate sand has a very attractive appearance, looking like a white tropical beach sand with tiny bits of shell in it. The particles are rounded as not to injure your rooting fish and to prevent packing, thus avoiding gas pockets.
It hàs a luminous white color that seems to glow. To see photos check under normal threads and December entrys (there are only a few) in the forum To Sand or Not To Sand, I would post a photo here, but due technical problems. Another member was kind enough to post them for me at the time of the discussion on the thread To Sand or Not To Sand.
This particulate sand has a very attractive appearance, looking like a white tropical beach sand with tiny bits of shell in it. The particles are rounded as not to injure your rooting fish and to prevent packing, thus avoiding gas pockets.
It hàs a luminous white color that seems to glow. To see photos check under normal threads and December entrys (there are only a few) in the forum To Sand or Not To Sand, I would post a photo here, but due technical problems. Another member was kind enough to post them for me at the time of the discussion on the thread To Sand or Not To Sand.