African Cichlid Substarte

[wesleydnunder]

Re: African Cichlid Substarte

TEX BLAST is no longer in buisness, but the location is somewhere not far north of Houston, I think...not sure but Prosper knows where the business was. Prosper and Bill Wimmer bought a whole pallet of the stuff when they went out of business. I think one of the local pet wholesale distributors carried it for the pet shops, so your friend in Seabrook may have bought it from Central Pet Supply or one of the others.

Mark

[sick-lidbythesea]

Re: African Cichlid Substarte

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I go to HD or Lowes and get the bag of small agate aggregate in the concrete area. Some I sift out while washing with 1/4" hardware cloth and end up with nice uniform grains for real cheap. Most of my tanks are just bag mix and have all sizes.  It doesn't affect water parameters being agate.
If you guys are all over the blasting sand, forget the pet stores and go direct to the supplier as its a lot cheaper and its usually a 50lb bag.  I used to buy from T-tex on Almeda Genoa. They usually have all sizes of sand as well as garnet and glass bead.

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[wesleydnunder]

Re: African Cichlid Substarte

...If you guys are all over the blasting sand, forget the pet stores and go direct to the supplier as its a lot cheaper and its usually a 50lb bag.  I used to buy from T-tex on Almeda Genoa. They usually have all sizes of sand as well as garnet and glass bead.

I've tried many brands over the years and the largest I've been able to find in the plain blasting sand is size 2, and it was usually half a bag of fines and half a bag of advertized grain. The size O is only produced by one supplier, that I've been able to determine, and it's only about 5% fines.

Mark