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Question about bare-bottom tanks?

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For those of you who have bare-bottom tanks, do you also have plants? How would you keep plants in a bare-bottom tanks? Would they have to be only floating plants? Or do you just throw the plants in and let them sit there without substrate, or what?
 
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I just got an idea. Take some terra cotta plant pots, fill them with stones (obviously need to be bigger than the animal's head), and plant the plants in them. Other people have done this, right? I highly doubt I'm the first to think of this.
 
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Ooh! That's really cool, Molch. :p I'll probably do that in the future, when I have a bigger aquarium with a lot of water in it and the money to do so. Thanks!
 
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In the tutorial, you say to cover it with a layer of gravel or coarse sand. Isn't that bad for the newts or salamanders if they ingest it?
 
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i have always had bare bottom tank with my axies. except for terracotta half plant pots and very large stones. I have always used plastic plants as they like to sit on them but would be far too clumsy for the real thing as mine do not have a filter either i found with my newts the really thing got quite smelly.
 
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Scorpion said:
In the tutorial, you say to cover it with a layer of gravel or coarse sand. Isn't that bad for the newts or salamanders if they ingest it?
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not necessarily. I wouldn't use gravel with species that are known gravel-gulpers, like axies or Pleurodeles. However, sand should be okay.

Smaller newt species like fire bellies or alpine newts are probably alright even with gravel.
 
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