What about making your own based on the ABG ingredients?What isyour favorite substrate blend thats not pre-made? I'm looking for some ideas lol
I get a bag of eco complete, some orchid bark, coir, spagnum moss, carbon and mix it all together till its fluffy works for me. no special formulaWhat isyour favorite substrate blend thats not pre-made? I'm looking for some ideas lol
Would you recommend peat or coco fibre if someone would do this mix?Coco coir, coco chunks, madrone bark, crushed leaf litter, horticultural charcoal, long fiber sphagnum over a gravel drainage layer is what I've been using since I'm redoing all my tanks. I don't have time to do a clay based substrate. This mix is airy, allows for microfauna to travel freely throughout, and holds enough moisture to keep plants happy. I don't have ratios, I just eyeball it.
Peat is non sustainably harvested from bogs better left alone to serve as wetland habitat and carbon sinks.... Coco coir is more sustainable and less acidicWould you recommend peat or coco fibre if someone would do this mix?
Isn't bbq charcoal bad?BBQ charcoal is cheap, so I just break it up with pliers.![]()
They are talking about the natural wood chunk charcoal, not the processed briquets.Isn't bbq charcoal bad?![]()
That's great! I even have a old meat grinder.I use an old hand crank meat grinder on large hardwood charcoal to make it the size I want