mixed soil or same soil

[chansl]

Hi guys

I have a new 2 feet tank with a new packet of gex soil 8 kg in it. I heard from some seniors that gex soil red will not buffer for long. Since I am going to do a wc of 80% due to my high gh. My question is should I get another gex red and fill it up to 6-7 cm height to extend the buffer or mix gex with other lower Ph soil? Please advise. Thank you

[newlife]

why not change soil instead???

by the way....your 2 feet right now is a new setup with new soil???

[chansl]

Ya bro. New soil new setup. Cause I got a lousy brand of soil and cycle my tank for1 month for nothing. So change for gex red.but some bro advise me to increase the height of soil to 7 cm. Just wondering if mixed or same soil better.

Cheers

why not change soil instead???

by the way....your 2 feet right now is a new setup with new soil???

[Zenith82]

I suggest you check what PH you wish to obtain, as different soil buffer different PH values. Like ADA soil some are more acidic which buffers to 5.2~5.4. Others range from 6.4~7.4. If you wish to maintain low PH you can play with different soil to mix and get a desired PH value.
Try to fill soil to at least 4~5cm height for better buffering properties.
I'm resetting tank so I'm trying ADA 30% + mosura 70% to mix. Hopefully can get ard 6.2~6.4.

[goody992828]

Bro to share my bad experience, previously I have very bad experience with GEX soil. Hence would still recommend go for the ADA new soil instead if u going to reset your tank

[chansl]

Sorry to hear that. But unfortunately I just got a new packet of gex red!!! I think I will have to mix 4 kg of Ada.Ada or mosura better?

Bro to share my bad experience, previously I have very bad experience with GEX soil. Hence would still recommend go for the ADA new soil instead if u going to reset your tank

[chansl]

Bro thank for your help. My current gex soil is filed to 5cm height.should I mix with ada. Please please SMS or whatsapp me as I am using a tablet and it is slow. 84444148 thank

I suggest you check what PH you wish to obtain, as different soil buffer different PH values. Like ADA soil some are more acidic which buffers to 5.2~5.4. Others range from 6.4~7.4. If you wish to maintain low PH you can play with different soil to mix and get a desired PH value.
Try to fill soil to at least 4~5cm height for better buffering properties.
I'm resetting tank so I'm trying ADA 30% + mosura 70% to mix. Hopefully can get ard 6.2~6.4.

[chansl]

Bro thank for your help. My current gex soil is filed to 5cm height.should I mix with ada. Please please SMS or whatsapp me as I am using a tablet and it is slow. 84444148 thank

I suggest you check what PH you wish to obtain, as different soil buffer different PH values. Like ADA soil some are more acidic which buffers to 5.2~5.4. Others range from 6.4~7.4. If you wish to maintain low PH you can play with different soil to mix and get a desired PH value.
Try to fill soil to at least 4~5cm height for better buffering properties.
I'm resetting tank so I'm trying ADA 30% + mosura 70% to mix. Hopefully can get ard 6.2~6.4.