River gravel substrate.

Hi all.

Well, one of our local rivers came down with a flood and deposited this nice river gravel that looked easy to get to. I collected a bit and want to use it in my tank as a substrate. What do you think? Would it be suitable for plants and catfish?
Here is a pic with a ruler as a scale to size the gravel.



Thanks:bigsmile:

 

i used something similar in my 3foot once and besides the obvious benefits of hiding detritus my amazon swords grew the biggest i had ever had.they were'nt lush by any means but they were big

 

Nice looking substrate. We also had some floods here and you must have seen all the driftwoods at the beach, like tons and river sand in the road at every bridge. Now, are we allowed to collect or not? The minisipality(k@k word to spel for a boertjie) took loads away so i recon it fine at certain times.

 

@Go-Big . There was TONS of reed and bamboo like stuff washed up on our beach's too. My friend lost a boat and people lost barges that were in the river.
I got 2 small pieces of drift wood, the gravel is such a mission to clean though.
Here is a link for a youtube video of the river that flooded, I collected the sand a little upriver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZjRoDwDpec

 

Jislaaik, thats lots of water! We didn't have it so bad. But as some of you know im in the short term insurance game.......we had moer of a lot of claims!

 

thats the exact gravel im using.. only diff was i bought it for R200ish for 20-30kg.. not bad but not free either hehe.. just be careful of the legality of taking the stuff.. nice find though!

 

Hi Shir. As i mentioned above; i really dont think this is a issue in flood situations. I have clients with river sand in there livingrooms.

 

Sorry go-big.. Didn read ur post.. I'm sure if Its part of cleaning up then Its fine.. But at a river on a regular basis I'm sure in the long run there would be problems.. Sorry to hear about ur situation..

 

Looks smooth enough for catfish. Looks cool for an amazon tank.

 

That's the plan...Thanks

 

I wish I bought flourite natural instead of flourite black . .. we shall see how my tank turns out . . .