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I'm not sure what the species will be yet, I'm looking at a few species like arrowheads and grasses. A bullrush would be nice but probably a little too big for my system...

Thanks Crypt, I've been trying to find out the details of the fertilisers in pond soil but haven't mangaed it so far. Did the tank get messy when you moved things about in your tank or did the soil stay were it was?

I'm going to set up a small 40l for pond snails and want to use native British plants. The tank is sand only at the moment as it used to be home to a Fiddler Crab but I wanted to put a layer of substrate underneath the sand. Has anyone used pond compost such as 'Blagdons'? If so is it any...

You don't need a nutrient rich substrate because plants absorb nutrients through their leaves as well so you can dose a liquid fertiliser. You can use root tabs to good effect as well.

Yet another 50-50 guess is wrong!! :oops:

Cheers for the quick reply :thumbup: I understand that most of these come with varying particle sizes? Do you think that it would be best to go for smaller or larger; I would tend to think smaller but most of my 50-50 guesses turn out to be wrong - the laws of probability don't work with me!!

I'd like to create a 70 degree-ish 'bank' effect in my tank. I suppose that I would need a sticky sort of substrate but all I've had any experience with is eco complete and sand - neither of which will hold for any length of time; so I thought pond soil or aqua soil may be better. Does...