Who has bare bottomed tanks ???

[Mugwump]

Why??.......Gravel/plants look so much better...and the gravel helps hold 'bio'...

[wsantia1]

LOL. I do but I am going back to gravel or sand on my community and growout tanks. It's just a better look and it helps the bio in the tanks.

[LizStreithorst]

I'm all BB.  I don't have the patience to vacuum all that filthy gravel on a bunch of tanks.  I have plants in pots in many tanks and driftwood. 

[ghonk]

When i had all my tanks set up i had both,adults and pre breeders with gravel.
Pairs were a mix,i orginally was using bare bottom thinking for parent raising the fry could find the food easier.
But since the fry BECAME the food i just started pulling the spawns i wanted to keep,so some pairs had gravel later.
Fry and all juvies were bare until sellable size,didn't want the bbs and micro worms getting lost in the gravel. 

[BallAquatics]

My breeder set-ups are bare and the pleco and cory grow-outs are bare.

Why - Well with egg scattering fish, I get better hatch rates in bare bottom breeder set-ups.  With the catfish, it's just much easier to feed and clean-up after them.....

Dennis

[PaulineMi]

Discus, Dantes and slow growing juvenile angel are in bare bottom. The family room angels/miscellaneous fish, wild cross angels and the CPDS are in tanks with gravel, plants and driftwood.

The bb tanks are easy to clean...a daily X2 or 3 chore for the discus. The albino Dantums will eventually get planted.