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Re: killie biotope

thanks for all your suggestions on fish.  It appears that I can get most of them locally which has me pleased.  I don't know what I'll get yet, it depends a lot on availability.

I've decided NOT to use a peat substrate, thanks for all the advice against that.  I'll just put it in the filter.

I think I've got a good handle on the plants, tropica.com's advanced search comes through again, but I'm still not too sure about the substrate.

I already have purchased the flourite for the tank, but that is easy to cover up.  I had been planning, once I gave up on the peat idea, to put sand down on top of the flourite.  But then I got thinking, a flooded plain in Cameroon or Ghana doesn't have sand on top.

What can I put there?  I know Diana Walstaad's books talk about soil and I have hundreds of pounds of that in bags in the backyard.  What kinds of problems will I have if I lay soil down on top of flourite?

Oh, and to make life interesting the tank is full of water already, but I guess I can drain it.  I'll need to move the plants right now which are either floating or in pots filled with sand.

(Oh, and I'm sorry I've taken so long to get back to the thread, I've spent the last week in the hosptial, not fun at all!  I'm much better now.  I even worked on some tanks today.)
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