Setting up mr aqua 12g in bedroom.. black sand or white?

[nathan1986]

I have the fiji pink sand in both my tanks but kinda like the idea of black sand. seen black sand in vinces tank (from elite) and i liked it, something different from the norm. What are your opinions?

 

[CrazyEyes]

Bare bottom

 

[jfoltz]

Black

 

[nathan1986]

Bare bottom

Barebottom would be cool but with the tank being so small and only being able to add a few rocks. Im thinking itll look odd with no sand. Plus i was thinking about putting a goby in there. Possibly a circus goby (faois posted a pic a few days ago, cool little fish) so sand is most likely gonna have to happen lol

 

[nathan1986]

Black

I think if scaped right (hard to mess up adding 3 rocks haha) itll look good with black sand and the right corals

 

[jfoltz]

I have all three hate bare bottom not realistic

 

[nathan1986]

Ya im not a fan of bare bottom either. Some tanks look decent BB but i think with such a small tank it just wont look good at all

 

[jfoltz]

I had a 20 gal rimless black sand couple rocks looked amazing!

 

[nathan1986]

Im thinking black it is. You hardly see people use black sand, well i dont see it locally anyways. I thought, as silly as it sounds, that maybe people dont use it because its not as fine grain as you can get white sand in?

 

[anbosu]

At least in photos, the tanks don't look as nice IMO.

 

[jaylensdad06]

i used hawaiian black sand in a 6 gal fluval edge...and my 55gal...and white caribe sand in a marineland 5....the black looks the best.

 

[asbauto]

Be careful with black sand most are magnetic so it tends to pick up on mag accessories and very sharp pieces for sand sifting animals but I had a 30 with black and was nice for the bedroom kept the brightness down in the room and looked amazing

 

[MrHarvard]

I may have a bad of "live" black sand that I bought about a month ago your welcome to have. Let me know if your interested and I'll see info can't see where the wife stashed it.

 

[St Pete John]

I used black in my bedroom tank and regret it.

Doesn't look real to me.

 

[clearwatereefer]

i had black sand in my biocube and it look great when i first filled up the tank, but man as time went on i hated it. the tank always looked gloomy i regretted it and will never do that again. i think there a good look for fresh water tanks but i personally did not like it at all.

 

[nathan1986]

Well the results is about 50/50. On the positive side if i dont like it its only a 12 gallong tank. I could always remove the rock, suck out the black sand and replace it with white if i dont like the black

 

[jahel318]

White. It's more helpful in identifying parameter problems like high phosphates and nitrates (cyano growth/algae) especially if you don't test your params regularly. Even if your test comes up at 0ppm your sand won't lie.

 

[ekoroknay]

White. It's more helpful in identifying parameter problems like high phosphates and nitrates (cyano growth/algae) especially if you don't test your params regularly. Even if your test comes up at 0ppm your sand won't lie.

I personally don't like the black sand. I like white powder sand. I think it makes the colors "pop" more and it look cleaner IMO

 

[acropora213]

Tank back is black and that's where the color Pop comes from.
I'd go white aragonite also. Just a thin layer.

 

[snake1]

White sand only imo