Add Potting Mix Under Seachem Flourite?

I'm currently doing the dsm on my planted 10g. And I used Seachem . Do I need to add something under the to help the plants to grow or will they be fine with the sand?

 

Will be fine with sand + root tabs. Some used a heavily diluted macro/macro mix and mist it over the plants. You can do potting mix, but it's usually added as a base layer rather than mixed inhomogeneously with an inert substrate.

 

Will be fine with sand + root tabs. Some used a heavily diluted macro/macro mix and mist it over the plants. You can do potting mix, but it's usually added as a base layer rather than mixed inhomogeneously with an inert substrate.

What does inhomogenously mean ? Do you mean put it on top of the sand ?

 

Oops, that should read: "in homogeneously", as in not mixed together. The sand/gravel is usually added as a separate capping layer on top of a base layer of potting mix. But people do fine with just an inert substrate like sand/gravel with root tabs.

 

Oops, that should read: "in homogeneously", as in not mixed together. The sand/gravel is usually added as a separate capping layer on top of a base layer of potting mix. But people do fine with just an inert substrate like sand/gravel with root tabs.

If I already put the sand down is it worth removing the monte carlo I'm trying to grow and the sand then putting it on top of potting mix?

 

I wouldn't bother. Plenty of people here and in other forums have grown Monte Carlo fine in inert gravel. In fact it's easier to do MC with gravel in a dry start as it otherwise tends to just float out of the substrate when it's just been new planted in a tank filled with water. I didn't use a dry start and I literally had to shove it into the gravel and pile some of the substrate onto the sides to keep it down.

But otherwise I'd just stick a couple of root tabs and/or mist with a dilute macro/mix solution.

 

I wouldn't bother. Plenty of people here and in other forums have grown Monte Carlo fine in inert gravel. In fact it's easier to do MC with gravel in a dry start as it otherwise tends to just float out of the substrate when it's just been new planted in a tank filled with water. I didn't use a dry start and I literally had to shove it into the gravel and pile some of the substrate onto the sides to keep it down.

But otherwise I'd just stick a couple of root tabs and/or mist with a dilute macro/mix solution.

I'll be adding c02 in a couple weeks anyways so hopefully it should be fine. Thanks!