Sinking Pellets and pebbles

I have sand in my tank at the moment and have recently started feeding
sinking pellets rather than flakes, and they sit nicely on top of the sand.

I will be upgrading to a bigger tank soon (probably a Juwel rekord 70 or 96)
and am unsure about having sand as I am concious of it being sucked in to
the filter (my current filter isn't powerful enough to do this).

Just thinking though that I would like to go for pebbels rather than gravel
(as has been discussed on here recently) but I presume the sinking pellets
would just slip through and become unreachable at the bottom of the tank.

Am I right about the sand being sucked up?

Any advice?

Cheers

Andrew

"Andrew" wrote in message
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I have sand in my tank at the moment and have recently started feeding
sinking pellets rather than flakes, and they sit nicely on top of the
sand.

I will be upgrading to a bigger tank soon (probably a Juwel rekord 70 or
96)
and am unsure about having sand as I am concious of it being sucked in to
the filter (my current filter isn't powerful enough to do this).

Just thinking though that I would like to go for pebbels rather than
gravel
(as has been discussed on here recently) but I presume the sinking pellets
would just slip through and become unreachable at the bottom of the tank.

Am I right about the sand being sucked up?

Andrew, I'm pretty new to all this, but I have a Rekord 120 with coral sand
in the bottom, and there's no sign of any of that getting into the filter.
It's been up and running for about 5 weeks now. Any of this sand that gets
disturbed falls back to the base very quickly and the water is sparkly
clear. Not sure about other types of sand though.


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Andrew,

I did a lot of research. I DIDN'T go for sand in the end as it
can irritate gills and wear at their mouths. I did put a few pebbles
on one side of my tanks, but I feed them on the other side anyway
(bare bottom). I only have a few pebbles, and they are spaced apart so
that any food caught in there can be got at.

If you go for pebbles, you could always give the fish their own little
feeding bowl for their pellets to go in. A terracotta plant pot base would
look nice and get algae growing on it eventually. I've done this before I
went gravelless and I used a long plastic tube which I inserted into the
tank and into the bowl, then I dropped the pellets down the tube. That way
there's no food leftover.
Mel.


"Andrew" wrote in message
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I have sand in my tank at the moment and have recently started feeding
sinking pellets rather than flakes, and they sit nicely on top of the
sand.

I will be upgrading to a bigger tank soon (probably a Juwel rekord 70 or
96)
and am unsure about having sand as I am concious of it being sucked in to
the filter (my current filter isn't powerful enough to do this).

Just thinking though that I would like to go for pebbels rather than
gravel
(as has been discussed on here recently) but I presume the sinking pellets
would just slip through and become unreachable at the bottom of the tank.

Am I right about the sand being sucked up?

Any advice?

Cheers

Andrew

I have sand, and I have a power filter. I cut part of the intake hose so
it's about 4" from the top of the sand and it doesn't seem to suck up the
sand at all. I have heard of people going as much as 6" above the
substrate.


"Andrew" wrote in message
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I have sand in my tank at the moment and have recently started feeding
sinking pellets rather than flakes, and they sit nicely on top of the
sand.

I will be upgrading to a bigger tank soon (probably a Juwel rekord 70 or
96)
and am unsure about having sand as I am concious of it being sucked in to
the filter (my current filter isn't powerful enough to do this).

Just thinking though that I would like to go for pebbels rather than
gravel
(as has been discussed on here recently) but I presume the sinking pellets
would just slip through and become unreachable at the bottom of the tank.

Am I right about the sand being sucked up?

Any advice?

Cheers

Andrew