Floramax and Sand

[Joe Gatchell]

Setting up a 40 Gallon Long next week, going to be fairly heavily planted with low light plants. I have a 5 gallon bucket full of floramax, and I was thinking of mixing it with sand. Should I mix or just use one or the other? If I only do one I'll probably just go sand. Any thoughts?

 

[indyplanted]

I've used Turface and play sand together and it looks good. you might add a layer of peat to bottom of tank before you add the substrate.

 

[indyplanted]

If you use sand only make sure its not to deep or you can get dead spots. you might even do a layer of flora base and then cap it in sand. i redid my 90 gallon and did a layer of soil and then capped it with sand. here is how it looks at around 6 weeks of growth.