Choice for Sandbed

[damsels]

Hi brothers,

I have a curious question here for advice.

I recalled I saw from some book gallery of marine tanks where the sandbed is not made up of those normal white coral sands. In fact, those looks like normal freshwater river pebbles, not really sand but slightly bigger pebbles.

Never thought of such an idea but surprisingly it looks quite nice in the picture. Well, at least the sandbed wont look so dirty since these pebbles are of earth-tone colour.

So brothers! Do you think it is good to make use of such pebbles? even if not entirely, can we use it for the sandbed surface?

Thanks

[blueheaven]

Well if you want to use it in your display then that's ok

But do not use those for DSB

[marcvelous]

Well if you want to use it in your display then that's ok

But do not use those for DSB

Couldn't agree more.

Pebbles could nice for display tanks but if used as DSB will not be effective for culturing of denitrifying bacteria as well as providing a large area of "dead" space for trapping detritus

[kareen]

jus wondering.... will those mentioned pebbles in the display tank limit certain livestock eg sand burrowing goby, etc

[aStRoBo|]

using pebbles.. ur liverocks wouldn't be stable, may topple over.

[Reefbum]

Sorry juz to add on.Most marine displays are for viewing pleasure.What you don't see is the filtration system behind it.