Re: In defense of gravel...

Posted by Thera on July 30, 2001 at 23:31:30:

In Reply to: In defense of gravel... posted by nimbus2 on July 30, 2001 at 11:47:37:

I think there is a minimum gravel size. You don't want below pea size for smaller newts, an for bigger newts like pleurodeles, go with the largest size...

I too use gravel, I prefer gravel. I do use blackworms, but more for a "fun" thing for my C.pyrrhogasters to hunt throw the gravel for. Every one of my aquatic tanks has a dish for chopped crawlers and other types of foods. My pleuros even have learned so well that food is in the dish that if I present a meal elsewhere they go to the dish instead of sniffing the food out.

(they get the hint eventually :P)

But I prefer gravel for my plants, for my beneficial bio filter, and for the fact that you don't have little newts slip sliding all over the bottom of the tank...

Remember when you were a kid and you could slide all over the kitchen with your socks (or those of you who STILL do that :P)... That's what a tank w/o gravel is to me. Kinda hard work as far as the newt is concerned :)

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: I think there is a minimum gravel size. You don't want below pea size for smaller newts, an for bigger newts like pleurodeles, go with the largest size... : I too use gravel, I prefer gravel. I do use blackworms, but more for a "fun" thing for my C.pyrrhogasters to hunt throw the gravel for. Every one of my aquatic tanks has a dish for chopped crawlers and other types of foods. My pleuros even have learned so well that food is in the dish that if I present a meal elsewhere they go to the dish instead of sniffing the food out. : (they get the hint eventually :P) : But I prefer gravel for my plants, for my beneficial bio filter, and for the fact that you don't have little newts slip sliding all over the bottom of the tank... : Remember when you were a kid and you could slide all over the kitchen with your socks (or those of you who STILL do that :P)... That's what a tank w/o gravel is to me. Kinda hard work as far as the newt is concerned :)

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