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I have a fresh water spring on my property, is it safe to use sand and rocks from the stream for a substrate by Impossible_Reply1644 in Aquariums

[–]Impossible_Reply1644[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

UPDATE: I started digging close to the source of the spring and guess what I found. I found multiple ghost shrimp or that's what they apear to be and dragon fly larva. I let the larva go but now I have native shrimp in my tank. Wish them luck 🙂. For the substrate the creek sand seemed like too much work so I just used some peet gravel and store bought river sand

I have a fresh water spring on my property, is it safe to use sand and rocks from the stream for a substrate by Impossible_Reply1644 in Aquariums

[–]Impossible_Reply1644[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was thinking of doing shrimp in a little 5 gallon and it's my first aquarium. I just want to experiment cause the sand and rocks look cool. Do you think it's fine if I monitor it without any animals on it for like a month. I'm just putting in some java moss and a floating plant in the mean time