L46 best substrate for breeding - very fine sand VS bare bottom. Please vote.

[gereld_hor]

Sorry to dig out tis old thread, but may I ask if anyone tried keeping L46 with europet white sand as base?

Thanks in advance

[canopy]

Yes bro, tried. Not really good as the food tend to stick to the substrate and quite a hard time cleaning up. Black will bring out the L46 beauti, maybe u wanna try black color substrate.

[gereld_hor]

Originally Posted by canopy

Yes bro, tried. Not really good as the food tend to stick to the substrate and quite a hard time cleaning up. Black will bring out the L46 beauti, maybe u wanna try black color substrate.

Thanks bro!! Hehe guess I better stick to bare bottom for easy maintainence

[Edmundo]

I like sands but minimum only.

[gereld_hor]

Originally Posted by Edmundo

I like sands but minimum only.

haha, got the intention to put sand as it looks more natural.. but after considering maintenance, I decided to keep it bare for the time being

[Young Man]

Originally Posted by gereld_hor

haha, got the intention to put sand as it looks more natural.. but after considering maintenance, I decided to keep it bare for the time being

I started out with bare bottom. Then slowly add abit till a thin layer. Once you used to it. Maintenance is not too bad. Just a thin layer, so when they swim around they stir abit and with regular WC it should be fine (:

[Gowling]

Have 2 1-feet tanks, one with small pebbles stones ( tank n pebbles are more than 6 years old ) and an almost 1 year old tank with fine black sand.
Can see they enjoy digging around the sand to create their own crevices.
They even bred once in the pebbles tank.
Come to think of it, my L46 are more than 6 years old now. Wonder how long they can live? The biggest one is super duper fat..

[Goodzilla1188]

Originally Posted by Gowling

Have 2 1-feet tanks, one with small pebbles stones ( tank n pebbles are more than 6 years old ) and an almost 1 year old tank with fine black sand.
Can see they enjoy digging around the sand to create their own crevices.
They even bred once in the pebbles tank.
Come to think of it, my L46 are more than 6 years old now. Wonder how long they can live? The biggest one is super duper fat..

Bro you kept your l46 in a 1ft tank ? Any pic on the setup ? Thanks

[Gowling]

Originally Posted by Goodzilla1188

Bro you kept your l46 in a 1ft tank ? Any pic on the setup ? Thanks

my 6 year old 1 feet tank




This my 1 year old 1 feet tank for L46 babies with my other babies.

[harrysoo]

Very nice set up