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Permalink Reply by Jason DuBois on December 30, 2011 at 4:25pm

50% flourite 50% soil with regular gravel on top is pretty nice. I have a 30 gallon done that way.

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Permalink Reply by ThereThereTBKON on January 2, 2012 at 11:29am

Eco Complete definitely! I've used that substrate now for quite a while and it does not disappoint! Just make sure you spend a little extra and make it deep enough. Plants love it, it's easy to plant in and doesn't require syphoning. You can check out my videos if you want to see it in action. 

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Permalink Reply by Adam Carbary on January 2, 2012 at 4:55pm

I have eco-complete in my 45 and fluorite black in my 20 and both are growing like crazy. You can't really go wrong with either choice as they are all meant to yield good growth. That being said I do agree that dirt with a cap with offer more nutrients in the long run. I have three more tanks to fill and plant and I plan on doing a dirted tank with fluorite black sand as a cap. Then it is a matter of watching and seeing which tanks has the most growth.

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Permalink Reply by Melvin Nicholson Sr on January 5, 2012 at 12:22am

I have an inch of dirt packed down(organic dirt) then I have a half inch of flowmax or flourite packed tight, then one inch of fine gravel packed thight.  I placed the plastic bag from the flowmax over the substrate and allowed to water to run onto the plastic and not directly onto my substrate.  My water was clear from the very beginning and never dirty.  I mixed my mud very thick before packing it onto the floor of my tank ( mud pie thick)

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Permalink Reply by ben pickett on January 5, 2012 at 2:43pm

I used caribe sea flora max it was a cheaper version of Eco complete, anyone else used this?

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Permalink Reply by Don Inman on January 5, 2012 at 4:06pm

i would do dirt. eco dose not last and use flourit as a cap if you want but i use gravel. you can get dirt from homedepot for like 10$ for a big bag of it you also can get tha gravel ther to like 3-4$ a big bag 

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