The Best option would be a substrate designed for plants.
Plant specific substrate
A solution is to use a plant-specific substrate, such as Flora Base, by Red Sea, which is especially designed for supporting plant growth. It has the following benefits:
It's small and soft so no impaction risk.
It doesn't adversely alter the water chemistry.
It's easy for rooted plants to get established in.
Not necessarily but if you’re wanting to continue to grow your breeding capacity then yes. Breeding axolotls isn’t a cheap hobby nor is it a get rich quick scheme. It costs a lot of money and time and deditcation
Would Chinese fire belly newts be more or less inclined towards an aquatic eft set up versus Japanese . I'm raising them and have abandoned the terrarium at about 5 months old and switched to the aquatic setups you describe. I'm wondering if I could do this as soon as they morph?
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