What's Your Bare Bottom Like?

[EmilyB]

Mine look like Mikes. I don't really find much detritus that is "suck-a-upable". It's more like sand coming from the rocks. I imagine rock breakdown will create a sandbed in time.

[BCOrchidGuy]

I saw seahorse fanatics tank which is bare bottom and it looks great. I imagine it takes a long time though for all the coraline to get to the point where it looks like a bottom rather than all the bare glass. I was thinking about a bare bottom but was also hoping to get a pistol shrimp and goby, I wonder about putting a small barrier of sorts with a 2 inch sand bed for the goby/shrimp and then covering/disguising the sides with live rock rubble... Any thoughts as to whether this would be feasable or just cancel out the idea of the bare bottom.

Doug

[Der_Iron_Chef]

If you have adequate waterflow, I imagine the sand would get dispersed around in time. I'm sure the goby would help with the dispersion, too!! But it's a cool idea...maybe worth a try?