This is great for planted tanks. It is expensive, and will cloud the water, but it is definetly worth it. The appearence is very natural, more than you might think. Rinse thoroughly before adding to the tank.

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CORRECTED video of my fish. This link works. For sure. Really.

Tanks:
20g long: 4 panda cories, 1 honey gourami, 1 apistogramma borellii, 1 male cacatuoides
20g High: 3 bolivian rams, 12 rasboras
8g hex: empty
5g: empty

This stuff is great for plants, and if you get some easier plants they don't even need ferts with this stuff. It clouds water for the first little while, but if you keep up with your WC and really scrub it up at first, the clouding won't last too long.

this is great substrait it has brought back plants that i thought were gonners it defanetly cloudes the water to a lemonaid coler but well worth it if your struggeling with plants i highly recomend this to anyone who has tried and had little success with plants it makes you feel great about your efforts in adding live plants to your aquarium

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At The Moment
90gal-planted w/ driftwood 20-cardinal tetras, 15-redeye tetras, 15-green flame tetras, 15-white clouds, 1-pleco, 2-pearl gourami, 2-blue dwarf gourami, 2-pictius cats, 3-mystery snails,a baby snail, ramshorn snail
10gal planted 4-firebelly newts, 3 pairs of fancy guppies
29gal long Winston's tank-african fat tailed gecko
29gal long Jack's tank-leopard gecko
NOTE TO SELF ! NEVER BUY A SOLER POWERED WATCH AT NIGHT!

Way too expensive but if it works...might be worth it.

You can get it in a wide range of colors and they even make black sand now.

This WILL NOT cloud your water if you clean it enough. Just place it in a bucket and let water run though it for a while until it's clear.

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30g Photo Journal

This is the stuff if you want good sword plant growth.Use at least 50%.

Great planted tank substrate, am loving the black sand flourite. The black flourite is also awesome looking and not nearly as sharp as the regular. The regular is still a great substrate but I wouldn't keep cories on it.

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Originally Posted by i_am_511

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Absolutely worth the trouble if you are going to have a planted tank. If you have cories you will want to put a layer of smooth small pebble substrate on top to make the surface smoother and easier on their mouths. Digging fish will raise a cloud in this stuff, but your lush plant growth will make it worth the trouble.

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Why do people always scream when I'm driving?

I really like this substraight. All of the plants I've tried in it has done really well.

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