Mud vs other, plant tank

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Coralcutie1017

I have recently added a 10gallon plant tank onto my 120. I was reading a bit about using mud over rock for a advantage. I do plan on growing alot of plants and hopefully culturing copepods in there for mandarins. (plants: halimeda, shoal grass, botryocladia, gracilaria Hayi, sea luttce, and shaving brushes) I got plenty of light!

so i guess my question is is there an advantage of what sedament Is used? if so what?

here is what it looks like not filled yet.
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Crushed coral works just fine. The macro algae has a root structure but it is for anchor it self instead of nutrient uptake. They will grab hold of the substrate and keep trucking along. That is how I setup this 12g tank.
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nice tank! are those plants C.Ashmeadii? C.Sertulariodes or C.Mexicana? I am obsesed with marine plants dont know why. I guess the salt and green baffel me, lol any one know any good marine plant web sites? yahoo and google earch pull up crap.
 
Here is a great site http://marineplantbook.com for planted marine tanks. That little tank has C. Mexicana, C. Prolifica and H. FLORESIA.
 
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