The Substrate Experiment

A few days ago I decided to start a small experiment with my substrate. I always found that plain sand never looked natural so I decided to try something different, this time I added a clay mixture called bentonite which is used in koi keeping for its minerals. It gave me 2 days of hell with the water being quiet murky but a filter sock soon took care of that. The result looked great but you aren’t really able to play with the substrate due to clouds of fine clay when you disturbed it. Time will tell if this was a good experiment or not. I’m hoping that it won’t give me hassles in the long term but instead a buffing ability with its minerals and calcium.

Today the finishing touches were added with small pieces of coral rubble and rock were added around the main structure to get that wear down feel.

I hope you like to change



Before



After