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Originally Posted by willito
If using soil, does the current in the tank have to be at a minimal otherwise the water will be cloudy. Will the soil dirty and clog up the filters more rapidly? This mehtod sounds a little high maintainance or am I missing something here. Gravel seems to be the easier setup with less maintaninance on the filters. Sure there is that great benifit of the soil providing nutrients, but that can be achieved from supplements as well. With gravel, you don't even hesitate when it come to rearrange plants or reaquascaping. I am leaning more toward Florite right now.
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I currently have a substrate similar to the mineralized topsoil - river silt under SMS. When I pull up a rooted plant I get a small cloud of brown dust, but within less than an hour it disappears, settling back under the SMS. Other than that I am never aware of the mud under the SMS.