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Yassmeena · 08-03-2009, 03:47 PM

So it is not a definate that the flourite sand will grow plants better than pool filter sand?

I am planting a discus tank (switching tanks - planting new tank then then transferring the discus).

I have white pool filter sand, and was thinking of sectioning off an area that would have flourite black sand and be planted

I do not use CO2, just flourish and excel. But will probably upgrade to CO2 around x-mas time.

My plants are: rotala indica, java attached to DW, crinum thaianum + calamustrium, dwarf hairgrass, ludwigia repens, lobelia c. small form, e. bleheri.

Suggestions?

Thanks for all your help folks!

Yasmin

08-03-2009, 03:47 PM	#4
Yassmeena Planted Tank Obsessed (View User Tanks) PTrader: (8/100%) Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Bloomfield Hills, MI Posts: 437	So it is not a definate that the flourite sand will grow plants better than pool filter sand? I am planting a discus tank (switching tanks - planting new tank then then transferring the discus). I have white pool filter sand, and was thinking of sectioning off an area that would have flourite black sand and be planted I do not use CO2, just flourish and excel. But will probably upgrade to CO2 around x-mas time. My plants are: rotala indica, java attached to DW, crinum thaianum + calamustrium, dwarf hairgrass, ludwigia repens, lobelia c. small form, e. bleheri. Suggestions? Thanks for all your help folks! Yasmin