How deep is your sand?

[Complexity]

I'm replacing my old sand, and I think I had it too deep last time. How deep do you guys have your sand?

[armthehomeless]

I keep mine around one inch.

[barrettsline]

With my cichlids it varies from 5" - glass. They and the giraffe nose like to excavate.


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[eklikewhoa]

About 2"

[Crude]

2-5". Its the fine argonite. It was fairly even, but all the flow and my fervent diggers have changed that.

[myjohnson]

I'm with Tim, I keep a very thin layer about 1".

I just hate having gas build up on ticker layers.

[barrettsline]

I wish you would tell my fish that's what I'm trying to prevent, they don't get it.


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[Complexity]

Thanks everyone! I think I'm going with a 1 to 1.5" depth this time. I definitely had too much last time which is one reason my rock scaping got swallowed up.

[swk]

I only use enough to cover the bottom. 1" at the most. Spots usually end up bare from filter flow, but I'd rather see some bare spots than have gas build-up

[fshfrk]

Yup 1" here.