Bare bottom and Invertabrates.

[Moogled]

Cons?

Less natural look.

Here it is in a nutshell:

1. Pros of a BB tank is that it's easier to maintain. Simple.

2. Cons of a BB tank is that you won't have access to the microfauna/organisms that come naturally when you have a sandbed (of a certain depth). BUT, since this is Calgary, even if you had a sandbed, how ARE you going to obtain organisms anyway? Alot of the organisms in question are obtainable in the States but extremely hard to get here.

It's a no-brainer that there will be someone who disagrees and wants to venture into minutia about the specifics of a sandbed without regards to what is obtainable here in Calgary (Canada, even) but I think I pretty much summed it up.

[Todd]

Thanks for the help. BB it is! Hope to get the tank in place and start filling it tonignt.