Active Soil Review - Glas Garten Environment Soil

​David Ward · Monday, 5 November 2018

Glas Garten Environment Aquarium Soil is an active substrate made of different fired and sterilized earths especially developed for the use in aquaria. It lowers and stabilizes the pH, I find that it lower water in East Sussex to 5.2 – 5.5 if you use recommended amount so I tend to use less. The soil is dark brown and comes in normal or powder versions.

For a tank 112cm wide by 40cm deep and 30cm tall I use 8 litres which stabilises the PH to 5.8.
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I really like this soil and so do the shrimp, I would go for the powder version which has grain sizes of 1-2mm. I’ve got 6 tanks setup with this soil and all are doing really well and the water is crystal clear, I would say it’s as close to a perfect soil for Taiwan Bee shrimp as you will find, my only quibble is how it drops the PH to below 5.5 but this can be easily remedied by just using less soil.

I would rate this soil a 9/10