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To vermiculite, or not?
Hi all.
I've been mostly lurking here, since right near the creation of the list.
I posted a couple of months back, announcing that I was about to set up
a plant-centered, CO2-injected 55gallon, and asked for some input. This
would be my first real "plant tank". Well, that tank is still not set up -
I've been busy with other stuff. But now, I want/need to get it set up
soon.
Anyway, I'm deciding what to do for substrate. I've been following all this
vermiculite discussion, and my question essentially boils down to this:
Of the following list of substrates, which is the "safest", and which is
likely to produce the "best" results:
1) All gravel
2) A Kelly-Pushak vermiculite/humus/gravel mix at the bottom,
with plain gravel on top
3) A mix of just gravel/vermiculite at the bottom, and plain gravel
on top.
While I realize that these have become somewhat religious issues on this
list, what I need is basic advice. I would like my tank to be "successful",
meaning that it has good plant growth for at least a couple of years. And
while I'd like to be able to be another useful data-point in
net.plant.research, I'd *much* rather be a success data-point than a failure
one.
So, which should I do?
Davin.
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