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Old 08-31-2009, 08:19 AM
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Eco-Complete is recommended often too, but the Iron is rumored to deplete in just two years, plus it is really light weight so it's a pain in the butt to plant plants in
Hmm, I hadn't heard that. Good to know! I've gone as far as adding iron rich clay to the substrate of my planted tanks before, when I was growing Crypts.

Knowing that now, I would go for the dark Fluorite sand personally. But I have a thing for sand bottoms (it will probably depend more on the livestock than anything, I keep catfish and they like the sand).

P.S. Actually, 2 years isn't that bad, I guess it depends on what the expected life of the tank will be. But if it's lightweight, that's not good (and I would probably end up capping it with sand).
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