sand or gravel or rocks?

[GMAN]

What do you prefer? I have all 3 just curious. Sand is hard to keep clean, gotta vac every day almost.Gravel is ok but hides alotta food and stuff. Rocks are hard to clean ..Just curious to what you guys think? Or have any tips?

[stilllearnin]

gravel or bare bottom :thumbsup:

[Mark Stone]

Colorful gravel --

--Mark:cool:

[cichlidfish]

There is a "POLL" option when you post

[Fred]

I have gravel and bare glass. i prefer the gravel. bare glass almost as bad as sand.

[LaurieLee]

I use natural colord gravel with a few real rocks for hiding, I havent had to clean the tank out yet so I'm still waiting on that one.

[STRICKEN]

Natural colored gravel!! 

[Kenshin_Himura]

themed color gravel.  If you like natural, fine, if you like those neon black light reflective one, good for you as well.  I personally like dark substrate, black, with dark blues, purples, and silver (medium blue) thrown in to mix it up.

[Dawnna]

Natural gravel, easy to clean.

[samanthia]

hmmm, i dont really know, i've only had gravel until like yesterday so i guess either gravel or if you just want something easy to clean, not for show, bare glass.

[Brony]

Darker gravel really helps my cichlid to stand out and also I have a gravel that keeps my ph high.....Yeah so Gravel with a sucking gravel cleaner thingo....Works best for me...

[Tony.H]

i think if you have sand and even gravel it wants to be just a thin layer i have just moved to a sand gravel mix and find it great the first couple of weeks it took awhile to get the fine stuff out a couple water changes later and all is good, the geophargus luvs it and filters though it looks like an oscar at feeding time, the plec makes mounds and shifts it all around which stirs it up and seems to help keep it clean, But each to his/her own.

[sdothogg]

never had sand

[cichlidfish]

I kept most of my tanks pretty bare....did have gravel in the small tanks (ie small fish small waste...) I think gravel is no good with big fish like oscars unless its just pebbles on the floor and there's no place food or waste can "hide"/get stuck etc...