[Morbid]

Originally Posted by Geckos and Goannas

Yeah, I forgot to add I dont use subsrate in many of my aquariums except my planted ones. It does benifit the fish by allowing benificial bacteria to grow on it though.

An adequate filtration system more than makes up for the beneficial bacteria that can be found in substrate. Unless you have an inadequate filtration system beneficial bacteria will not be found in any significant quality to greatly impact the water quality. People suck most of that gunk up when they do a good gravel vac and I don't know anyone who'd want a beneficial bacterial sand bed in their FW tank unless they're purposely thinking quite outside the box and it can be most effectively done outside the actual tank with a fluidized bed filter.
Planted tanks are a whole different story. With enough plants and light bioload a system could support itself without any mechanical filtration. But that's tapering off the subject. lol

[OffshoreMetal]

Yay , no more walking stomach ! ( walking catfishes :P )
Yesterday i bring them back to the pet shop i bought it and it was the girl not the guy that was there. The girl knows alot about the fishes she has, Unlike most pet shops. She gave me about 20$ for both of them , i paid like 22 but thats good since i didnt want theses anymore :P
Got 3 plants , 1 dwarf neon blue gourami , 1 white gourami , 2 Blue angel ram and another Albinos claw frog. All of my fishes together eat less than ONE of my old walking catfishes.
Heres Some pics and tell me what you think !
The Catfishes.
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My Tank
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