I'm trying to set up a riparium in my 57gal, and I'm scratching my head about how to get the substrate look I want while having some aquasoil in there as a planting medium too.
My goal is to have something that looks like a light-colored pebble-y river bottom that shades from some coarser stones to pebbles and then to plain sand. But underneath I'd like to hide some aquasoil for chain swords or crypts to grab. Has anyone succeeded in doing that? Or has anyone found light-colored aquasoil?
I know that plain sand won't stay on top of aquasoil without help...
My 33 long has aquasoil under flourite. You put the AquaSoil in the middle, damp/wet enough that it'll hold some shape then pour the flourite around it, then over it (leave 2" margins around the edges. I haven't really had issues with it shifting around.
