Re: [APD] onyx sand and gravel

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

Even if they stratify, that's nots so bad. I find the sand
easy to plant in, and I suspect that if you had mostly
sand, that benefit would not be lost.

Plants do love to grow in Onyx, ime.

Scott H.
--- Joanne Damon <Joanne000 at webtv_net> wrote:
>   With the help of this group I decided to go with onyx
> sandfor a
> substate.  I ordered it last week from Big Al's.  They
> sent me the
> gravel instead.  It wasn't a problem as they are going to
> send the sand
> out and told me to just keep the gravel.  The gravel is
> really large
> size pieces,  may you could even say huge, but a nice
> color under the
> water, a blue gray with white flecks.
>   My question is ... is there any benefit to using both
> and how would I
> do the layering?  I will be using peat as my tap has a
> high KH, GH and
> pH.  My thinking is that no matter how I layered the sand
> it would
> eventually work it's way to the bottom ?? and I was
> hoping for the sand
> look on top.  I will only have one bag of sand  and am
> not sure, but I
> figure that will give a 2 inch layer in a 10 gal tank, so
> if I could use
> some of the gravel I could get it a little deeper in the
> back.  
>   Maybe I will try a coordinating stone background with
> the extra
> gravel....
> 
> joanne damon
> joanne000 at webtv_net
> 
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