Sand is my favorite part of a tank and it's hard for me to imagine a nice scape without it
Each tank is different, but in my tank I don't do anything to the sand, it's practically maintenance free. If there are diatoms, in a few seconds I blow them with a turkey baster. A diamond goby helps a lot too.
The bottom won't stay black unless you scrape it regularly, so it will be different than the background.
All the techniques I pointed will still work.
I was forced into creating a scape based on islands mostly by the anemones, I needed them to be contained.
If you look at the first pages of this thread, you can see I had the scape preplanned and I just added a few more rocks to my existing rocks to complete it.
Each tank is different, but in my tank I don't do anything to the sand, it's practically maintenance free. If there are diatoms, in a few seconds I blow them with a turkey baster. A diamond goby helps a lot too.
The bottom won't stay black unless you scrape it regularly, so it will be different than the background.
All the techniques I pointed will still work.
I was forced into creating a scape based on islands mostly by the anemones, I needed them to be contained.
If you look at the first pages of this thread, you can see I had the scape preplanned and I just added a few more rocks to my existing rocks to complete it.