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    Tiny Fry
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    I am so happy with my kids play sand. What a relief !

    So I bought some kids play sand. Most of it was really fine but I washed most of the clay and fine stuff out and now its great pretty much all silica I think . I pushed my aqua soil up the back and the sand is at the front and sloping up over the aqua soil. Its such a relief to see the food to sit straight on top, now I can watch them eat they way they like to. It looks so great I nearly dont wont to put the plants back in.

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    Free Swimmer
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    Good to hear

    Now the big question "do you have any pics to post ?"

    Cheers

    Andrew

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    Tiny Fry
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    I will post some. So my subsrate keeps my swords alive, which is good. What globes can I get to make the discus glow and the swords grow.

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    Free Swimmer
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    what sort of light fitting do you have ?

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    Tiny Fry
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    an aqua one alluminium one, 4 ft long holds two globes. Sits on top of the tank.

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    Free Swimmer
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    36 watt tubes , or is it a T5 fitting ?

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    Tiny Fry
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    36 watt. Im thinking sunlight globe and grow globe ?

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    Free Swimmer
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    only an opinion

    i would get a 6500k or 10k depending on what you like in colour
    And an 8000k growlux

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    Medium Discus
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    what type of aqua soil did you use??? Im planning on having kids play sand as my substrate and i was thinking of having some under the sand as well

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    Blue Diamond Discus
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    I have sand and swords. My tank gets a fair bit of natural light so I have very minimum lighting on the tank, a red globe in a 2ft fitting and another 18inch with a white light. My swords go nuts. I did put some root tabs under them and I don't add any other ferts. I even have some crypts going mad with out much lighting. I love the root tabs.

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