Glued sand bed

[Mebbid]

I am seeing a lot of tanks going barebottomed and while I understand the reasoning behind them, it just doesn't look right to me because the lack of a sand bed.

I am wondering if anyone tried to reach a happy medium between the two by gluing or siliconing a sand bed to an insert that goes on the bottom of the tank.

Doing this will allow you to crank the flow high as you want without creating a sand storm while preventing it from accumulating detritus.

 

[Reef of Fillory]

Cool idea, if you end up doing this make sure you take pictures and post your experience!

 

[William Norman]

I am seeing a lot of tanks going barebottomed and while I understand the reasoning behind them, it just doesn't look right to me because the lack of a sand bed.

I am wondering if anyone tried to reach a happy medium between the two by gluing or siliconing a sand bed to an insert that goes on the bottom of the tank.

Doing this will allow you to crank the flow high as you want without creating a sand storm while preventing it from accumulating detritus.

Did you do it ? I was thinking about doing this so the bottom of my tank doesn't look weird when the sand gets blown away in one spot.