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First off I hope this is in the right place....
I've read quite a bit and watched lots of you tube videos about planted tanks and I have a few questions about building terraces, mounding or sloping the substrate. What I've read what seems to conflict with many of the aquascape videos I've watched. Almost every video shows substrate piled multiple inches high in the back of the tank, behind rock work or around driftwood but almost everything I've read says not to have more the a couple inches of substrate to avoid or prevent anaerobic pockets and gassing.
So my question is how or why are they able to do that?
Is it because of the substrate they use?
That ADA stuff seems pretty pricey to just build terrace, I saw one vid where they used 7 bags, I'm pretty sure it was the big ones so that's almost $350 just on substrate😱.
I've seen people mention using lava rock in bag or loose as a 'filler' under the substrate but won't the substrate just kind of wash out or settle out into the rock and then you'd loose the height?
So I'm also assuming using a dirt bottom layer is pretty much out of the question when trying to do an "aquascape" and the dirt bottom is more aimed at a Dutch style set up, correct?
Thanks in advance
I've read quite a bit and watched lots of you tube videos about planted tanks and I have a few questions about building terraces, mounding or sloping the substrate. What I've read what seems to conflict with many of the aquascape videos I've watched. Almost every video shows substrate piled multiple inches high in the back of the tank, behind rock work or around driftwood but almost everything I've read says not to have more the a couple inches of substrate to avoid or prevent anaerobic pockets and gassing.
So my question is how or why are they able to do that?
Is it because of the substrate they use?
That ADA stuff seems pretty pricey to just build terrace, I saw one vid where they used 7 bags, I'm pretty sure it was the big ones so that's almost $350 just on substrate😱.
I've seen people mention using lava rock in bag or loose as a 'filler' under the substrate but won't the substrate just kind of wash out or settle out into the rock and then you'd loose the height?
So I'm also assuming using a dirt bottom layer is pretty much out of the question when trying to do an "aquascape" and the dirt bottom is more aimed at a Dutch style set up, correct?
Thanks in advance