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csmith
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In an effort to rectify my NH4 woes (It's been a month and a half and I was still getting 20+ ppms) in my 20 gallon I've dumped the onxy sand/wormstrate (I like that word too, Gerryd 
) mixture I had and gone soley with onxy sand, and less of it. I pulled the old substrate, dumped in the new sand, filled with water to substrate level and planted. After 30-45 minutes my stauro and stems have no desire to stay down and the crypts are slowly creeping out too. Turns out the substrate is riddled with air pockets (which makes me feel better actually, I thought I was speshul when I couldn't plant stems a few months back in this stuff), so many so that tommorrow I'll have to pull everything out and alleviate that issue, then rescape. You know you have problems when rocks are moving around.
Anywho, has anyone noticed this to be an issue with ADA AS? I just redid my 55 with 3 bags worth of the stuff and if it comes down to me having to pull all of the hardscape out to fix the issue I'd just as soon join the terrarium crowd.
) mixture I had and gone soley with onxy sand, and less of it. I pulled the old substrate, dumped in the new sand, filled with water to substrate level and planted. After 30-45 minutes my stauro and stems have no desire to stay down and the crypts are slowly creeping out too. Turns out the substrate is riddled with air pockets (which makes me feel better actually, I thought I was speshul when I couldn't plant stems a few months back in this stuff), so many so that tommorrow I'll have to pull everything out and alleviate that issue, then rescape. You know you have problems when rocks are moving around. Anywho, has anyone noticed this to be an issue with ADA AS? I just redid my 55 with 3 bags worth of the stuff and if it comes down to me having to pull all of the hardscape out to fix the issue I'd just as soon join the terrarium crowd.