[JustOneMore20]

My cories don't really uproot the plants as much as my yoyo loaches do. The yoyos swim around the tank and chase each other and run over the plants. The cories just move around the plants....sometimes if a plant is barely holding in the substrate, one bump will uproot it, but overall the cories aren't a problem.

I use Eco-Complete. Most of it is really small grain, almost sand like, and some of it is gravel-like. It is great for cories and plants. It doesn't seem to compact like really fine sand does. Also, pool filter sand is a coarser grain sand that shouldn't compact as bad as the finer grain stuff.