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Dirt escaping

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#1 ·
So, I've got about 1/2-3/4 inch of dirt under my flourite/eco-complete and I've almost always got dirt hanging out on top.

Is it something I need to worry about? Does dirt just escape and it is fine?

Here are a couple of pics.

I can't keep the dirt out of this corner


Some freshly planted
 
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#3 ·
I think that's more likely to happen with fine-substrate caps than gravel. I've had that happen in the natural planted tanks that I capped with sand; it's been less of a problem when I capped them with gravel. I think oldpunk78 is right. As long as it's not in the water column, and you fish out any floating, woody bits, you're tank should be fine, even though it's not too fun to look at.
 
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