Well hello, I'm planning on picking up a 5 gallon for my room. I'd really like a Dwarf Puffer, and I'm thinking that a sand substrate would look amazing. Maybe black and heavily planted.. anyway I'm just curious as to the basic maintenance and up-keep on the sand. I've done a little reading and am aware that if the sand is not stirred, bubbles can be released that are poisonous. So here are my questions:
Mike
- How much stirring is too much?
- Could all the sand particles floating around be ingested by the fish and subsuquently harmful?
- Gravel vacuumming is easy, mearly bury the siphion and let it suck up the junk, I'd assume it's not so easy with the sand. How does one siphon up the wastes without siphoning up the sand too?
Mike
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