I would guess that the "look" of a BB (that part that doesn't sit well with me anyhow) could maybe be improved by simply placing smaller pieces around the bases of the larger pieces. As I've said before the hardest thing for me to get away from is that it just looks like "rocks placed on starboard." Short of filing some pieces flat (way too overboard) I'm thinking that just some simple disguises would probably work.
Having gone DSB, plenum, short sandbed and bare bottom in previous tanks my favourite is still the short sandbed for looks. I've gone back to it in my 90g and now I have some few hundred pounds of sand I'm not sure what I'm going to do with. I'm thinking of planting my mangroves in it in a 'fuge idea or something.
Anyhow I've never tried starboard (I keep thinking I'm calling for right of way everytime I say that) so maybe the white bottom is just that magic answer to complete the look of BB ... I don't see it in the pictures though, but maybe it's just one of those things you have to see in person.
Even with 1" of sand in my 90g (and none under the rocks so much) I notice small amounts detritus accumulation in spots ... so ......... who knows.
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