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Excellent, I seen that on ebay but was unsure if that was the type I needed!

cheers, at the moment the tank is already established, no co2 no ferts. and the vallis is doing well the other plants are 'ok' however most will go in the bin. so I am hoping I do not have too many problems with algae, however i realise once i change the substrate it will be like starting a new...

Cannot seem to find it anywhere. does anyone know of a good substitute?

Well my plan is a lightly planted low tech for now for a few months until my wild discus aclimatize. After then I plan on going back to high tech and thats when I will probably give soil a try. However I am shocking at scaping so I shall see how the low tech goes first......

Cheers for that! In an ideal world I would love to use a soil substrate capped with sand, however I change my plants round that much I fear I would just end up with a sand/mud sludge at the bottom of my tank.

anyone know the correct amount of ozmocote i should use in a four foot 285l?

Superb advice. Ive got a bag of similar homebase stuff knocking around somewhere that is the same make up to ozmacote. If not I dont imagine it would be too hard to find

Yes it does from what the article george wrote said. My tapwater is pretty high in them anyway and I would be dosing E.I. however ozmacote is way cheaper and easier for me anyway. I just thought these could of been a better option...

just done a bit of research (some of which led me back to this forum lol) and it seems I have a few choices, however due to cost and texture ive narrowed it down to 2... TetraPlant CompleteSubstrate (seems George Farmer had had experience with it) nutri base. I have picked these two...

Just a quick one, I will be doing a huge re-scape (hopefully) within the next week and I have decided to use play sand as a substrate (currently using black sand) and I was wondering what would be the best way of adding nutrients? It will be low tech and at the moment I buy various capsules...

Im growing carpet plants fine in my 275l aquarium usuing course sand with a few root tabs underneath. As people have said, as long as your dosing the water column you will be fine.

i want to hopefully start sorting out my new tank today and got most of it planned. i want to keep substrate simple, and as it will be deep in areas i wanted to keep it inert as to minimize anything nasty building up. i have a bag of slow release granules (homebase own brand) that seems to have...

so there wouldn't be a noticeable difference with plant growth if i used soil with a gravel top. and i like sand, but i like changing my tank quite often..... id imagine sand gets pretty messy?

or would an all in one substrate be better? altho ive heard the nutrients in them do not last long....

as above, im looking for advice........ i have it in my head that for my 200l i am going to use organic soil topped off with black gravel for the substrate for my 200l amazon theme aquarium. what is everyones opinions? ive heard sand is tricky to deal with and gravel alone would not be best for...