Have you ever used Eco complete or flourite? I'm planning some tank renos and since I plan on having them planted, I'm trying to figure out which would be a better planting media to mix with Tahitian moon sand.
I’ve used flourite black in 3 tanks so far! my swords and giant hygro seem to do great it in :3 I love the stuff~ if you wanna mix the plant substrate with sand, i’d say you could use whichever substrate matches the sand better :p caribsea makes the eco-complete and the tahitian moon sand, but fluorite makes a product called Fluorite Black Sand. Fluorite might also be cheaper but i’m not 100% sure >.> Also, Fluorite is supposed to be washed (at least the fluorite black i bought with the rinse-in-bag bag was supposed to be) but I dont think you’re supposed to wash eco-complete >.>
Flourite
[ source ] Flourite Black; i wanted to show you about how big the substrate is.
[ source ] Differen’t colors fluorite comes in. Fluorite Black Sand has particles about 1/3-¼ the size of the Flourite Black particles.
Eco-Complete
[ source ] Eco-Complete looks to have rounder particles than fluorite, but…
[ source ] Eco-complete Red looks to have very similar particles to fluorite.
–Hopefully this helped you out a bit anon! :p if anyone has any experiences with eco-complete or fluorite, feel free to share! :D–