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3 is very nice but difficult to maintain. You will find your GEX keep getting into your sand area. 1 is interesting only if you look at the tank at angles. 2 is by far the most conservative but it is also the one that may looks best in frontal shot
Hi guys I'm planning a rescape for a 1x1x1.5ft tank. Substrate will be GeX soil but i would like to add a bit of sand too. Main hardscape would be just a T-shaped driftwood, unless I can find a better piece. Meanwhile I've drawn some sketches. Would appreciate some opinions.
Do pardon the lousy sketches. The brown T is the driftwood. Gray is the GeX substrate and white is the sand area.
I'm more inclined towards 1 right now.
3 is very nice but difficult to maintain. You will find your GEX keep getting into your sand area. 1 is interesting only if you look at the tank at angles. 2 is by far the most conservative but it is also the one that may looks best in frontal shot
Thanks Jervis. Do I have to add small stones between the sand and the substrate or should I just let it be?
It really depends what are you trying to depict. Small stones can stop the soil from getting into the sand but it's hard to pull through nicely. Having black soil on white sand is the most frustrating thing especially once you introduce shrimps and fish. Plan carefully
Hmmm actually I'm going for a wild look. Maybe I should just abandon the sand idea altogether.
Frankly I don't really know whether to go with or without the sand.
Last edited by doppelbanddwarf; 9th May 2008 at 23:18.
if you go for sand i prefer look number 1
i did look number 2 frontal sand area in one of my 1 foot cube tanks and it tends to get boring after awhile
i find it difficult to create depth
perhaps due to the small tank dimensions constraint
if using sand, you have to be disciplined to vacuum it often
Regular vacuuming.
I think I might just scrape the whole idea of sand altogether.
It depends. I'm also having those beach fine sand. Faunas used to include yamatos and cories. Yamatos literally decorated the sand with their nitrates and have the habit of bringing bits of ADA aquasoil from the planted area into the sand area. Cory pygmaeus is fine can't even see their waste. So removing the yamatos solved the problem for me. Though occasionally will still see bits of soil on the sand.
God will make a way, where there seems to be no way
No.1 looks nice and seems to be more easy to maintain?
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