freshwater rebuild

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

So Fluorite is black? Man I wish I knew that about a year ago when I was setting up my FW and I wanted more Eco-Complete and freakin' NOBODY in town had any. So I ended up putting in a bottom layer of Volcanit (which is brown) and then on top a layer of the black. It looked good for about 8 months but it is starting to shift around and mix up now and it doesn't look as good. I'm not sure what it would involve to swap out the substrate at this point, I'm thinking that's basic complete tank turnaround and I'm not sure I'm up for that challenge at the moment.

I have a question for you Steve, is the hang-on filter the only thing you have for flow in there? Will you be putting more flow in the tank at some point?

Anyhow, it looks great so far. What is the light you're using? PC's?

Oh and what size tank is it?

the hang on is a HOT magnum 250, I am almost thinkingit is to much flow for the tank, but thats ok, just means when I run out of my carbon additive I might use a bit more CO2 when I start pumping that.

the light is the hagen GLO set up. It is a twin HO T5 unit, lights my tank way better than the 4 T8's I had on there
http://www.hagen.com/canada/english/...htProg2_EN.cfm

I found flrite dark (which was a redish/brown color) florite black, and florite black sand. I felt the black sand was to fine to hold the plants good so I just went with the black.

I took 4" of small natural looking gravel out of there, all that was involved was a big container and one of the kids plastic shovels

Steve