Super Fine sand

[+mcallahan]

britfish hooked me up with some super fine sand that he had in a bucket in his garage. I put it in the aquapod I'm borrowing while I get my new tank setup and I noticed today that the sand is so fine that when my hermit crabs walk across it, it leaves tracks!

Does anyone know of any drawbacks to using superfine sand as a DSB?

sand pic:

[blindside]

I heard that sand is not that great due to the smoke like tracks it leaves behind everytime anything moves!

[mikedelgado]

go bare bottom

[+mcallahan]

go bare bottom

Really? The bare bottom look never appealed to me unless you had tons and tons of lR so you can't see the bottom.

Are you trying to drive up sales of LR?????

[fishypets]

Sugar fine sand blows always blew around in my old tank causing "sand dunes" I'd be careful too with a deep sand bed, it can cause a toxin release if it's disturbed which will result in a crash.