Sand Substrate for Syno Multi

Derpeder · Post by **Derpeder** » 01 Sep 2006, 19:36

Okay, what are the goods and the bads of a sand substrate for Syno Multipunctatis. I have a new 75 gallon!!!!!!!! and i'm thinking about doing a sand substrate.

Plus I'm getting 4 mature Syno's in hopes of breeding. (they have had fry before so!!!!) Is sand the best for that? Or does it even matter?

LEt me know

Thanks

Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 01 Sep 2006, 21:45

Hi there

You didn't say what type of sand you were considering. I have kept multis with plain gravel, coral sand & plain sand, without any problems. Coral sand has the advantage of assisting maintain "tanganyikan" water chemistry & as long as you don't use sand that is too fine which can compact & allow stagnation to occur you will be fine with any of the above substrates. By plain sand i mean inert aquarium sand such as "BD aquarium sand" which is available in retail outlets in the uk, or something similar. If you are aiming to breed multis i would suggest your primary objective is to ensure you have some adequate host c*****ds which will be happy to breed in your set-up (like Acei, for example). The multi is a pretty hardy & adaptable fish, so with good quality water, good feeding, adequate hosts, you should have few problems. Be patient, watch & i'm sure sucess will be only just round the corner.

Best of luck & keep us all posted

Richard B

cjp · Post by **cjp** » 01 Oct 2006, 15:31

You might want to try pool filter sand,it's grain is much larger than play sand.I have a small tank set up with this,keep the sand's depth at under 2",and add mts to aid in keeping the sand turned over.One thing to remember,mts will multiply very fast,so you'll want to keep some loaches that love to eat snails to keep them in control.

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 01 Oct 2006, 16:41

Hi CJP & welcome to PC.
You have been very eager to post and apparently you kept on pushing the submit button

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No worries, in the right hand corner of your posts sits a delete button, so you should have no troubles getting rid of 4 of your posts.

cjp · Post by **cjp** » 02 Oct 2006, 20:03

Sorry about the number of posts,been having all kinds of problems with my pc,it did not show that my post went thru,so I hit the submit three more times.Thanks for the welcome.cjp.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 03 Oct 2006, 10:29

Marc, I think you can only delete the "oldest" post if you're the poster.

I've deleted the surplus ones anyways.

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Mats