Photo: Advise me on my tank set-up

[Joost]

I still rather keep gravel. Sand is indeed easier to clean, but in my cases, I don't clean at all. Because of the gravel, dirt falls down to it, but there are also the bacteria. In my experiences with sand, I never had a good bacterial balance, even if the setup was the same (exept the gravel/sand part offcourse)

 

[tmarmoratus]

To each his own, Joost. I prefer sand over gravel for aesthetic reasons, as well.

 

[stitchpunk]

yes sure, it is too complex. But its my first ever tank and there was no way i was going to wait months and months for the newts to grow up before getting to play around with tank designs! no doubt I'll make more changes to it as I find out what works and what doesn't. But as I don't have any other tanks to maintain I don't mind if it takes a bit more work to look after this one; on the whole I'd prefer the newts to be in an environment that bears some resemblance to where they would live in the wild.