You're not lazy, you wholeheartedly admit to your worst choices, and you share it all with us. I foresee myself binging on your channel tonight👍🏾.

i watched the whole video. loved the clean editing and the process of you changing the substrate. liked.

Hi AL.. this is how we learn huh? Nothing speaks louder than experience! You rainbows are amazing looking! =D

Thank you for uploading. Glad I watched this before making the same mistake. I wanted to mix some small river rock pebbles to my play sand substrate. Won't be doing that now. 🖒

love the black sand looks nice

RainBow looking nice great video

Hahahaha I made this mistake and I know where your coming from exactly .... glad you sorted it and it was a cool way that you sorted it too 🤗

i always use river sand coz its free but i love that black sand it reminds me of a dive i did in tenerefe

the problem with river sand is sometimes it has mica(big,no,no) but if you can get into the river with a mask you can see the flow of the water and how it got there and if any mica(but cold in scotland

im using ada aquasoil amazonia light and it is very nice looking and is doing my plants good

Sand is just much more suitable for the majority of applications. I do however enjoy a mixture of different sized sand/rock substrate. I think the mistake wasn't necessarily the dark pebbles but the size of them. I have had to remove bigger pebbles before in my planted tank and it was a pain in the ass. It is dirted too so removing all of the deeply rooted plants, sand, pebbles, dirt, etc everything would have been a nightmare. Instead I took a small hand held kid's sand sifter and meticulously removed the unwanted pebbles with everything inside of the aquarium.

I always want a substrate that's best for plants, which in turn is best for my fish.

Well I have axolotls so I keep a very fine sand in my tank :D However I'm getting a betta tank soon, I was planning of doing a mixture of stones and sand, but I might not now after seeing your vid 🤔

Fluval stratum.

I just changed a few of my smaller tanks to sand from gravel and I am liking it so far. That black sand looks really good with those yellow labs btw. My wife has a rainbow community tank and yours were beautiful, did you get rid of them during this change?

What kind of sand is this this is a nice set up I have a 36 gallon with pea gravel. I also have a 60 gallon that is waiting to get set up I need to find a sand that is affordable preferably black do you have any recommendations?

Where do you get your sand? And would it be beneficial for a live planted tank??? I got this annoyingly thick layer of rock over substrate and it just takes away so much room for my fish! Its a small tank with extremely small fish but the more room the better yknow?

i dont get it, why the waste built up if you mix gravel and sand? i prefer barebottom, it's easier to clean and always got nitrate level below 10 ppm

Where did you get this tank?

play sand and pool filter sand runs 5$ for a bag of 50 lbs cant beat it be sure to wash hardcore though

why bother, dude. just dump all that into a garden and get new sand and start over. you have mature filters so its fine. too much work to be worth the saving. Bite the bullet and get new sand.