Where to buy bulk black sand and or Black gravel

[Victorp]

Where in Houston can you buy like 100-200 lbs of this stuff

[madehtsobi]

ive used this stuff before

pretty cheap too

http://clemtex.com/products/abrasives/blackbeauty

[Victorp]

Where can you get this stuff And isn't this stuff magnetic?

[madehtsobi]

click on contact us...

[mistahoo]

I bought my black sand from Tractor Supply Co locally. It's about $6-7 for a 50lb bag of Black Diamond. They come in two textures. 30-60 which is finer and a 20-40 which is more coarse.

[cu0ngsayz]

Idk just reading the description it doesn't sound fish safe. Hahaha well for the fish that sift sand and stuff. They said "that has sharp diamond-like cutting edges" sounds like a bad horror story of a fish was to get that in its mouth. I might be wrong.

[mistahoo]

Idk just reading the description it doesn't sound fish safe. Hahaha well for the fish that sift sand and stuff. They said "that has sharp diamond-like cutting edges" sounds like a bad horror story of a fish was to get that in its mouth. I might be wrong.

LOL I read that on the bag too. Didn't think it would be safe either, but it is. My fish love to rearrange the tank and they pick up mouth fulls of this stuff with no problems. It's just crushed coal. I'm using the 30-60 texture and it's about the same texture as LPFS but black.

[mistahoo]

The 20-40 would be much better for plants. In the future, I would do a 50/50 mix of the 20-40 and the 30-60 for my tank.

[cu0ngsayz]

I wonder how this and PFS would look like mixed.

[mistahoo]

Not too great. It would look more black/grey than black/tan. Somewhat like this:

picture pulled from google

[mistahoo]

The black sand will stain the tan pfs a darker color. The black sand is made from coal, it leaves behind this greyish stuff onto whatever you put it in when you first wash it. If you use some kind of white grainy substrate (crushed coral?) it actually looks nice and gives you a salt and pepper look.

another pic pulled from google

[cu0ngsayz]

That looks like nicks tank. Lol

[mistahoo]

I don't know about that. I pulled it from Google and it was from this other unknown forum. Here's another pic with a better/worse(?) result pulled from TPT. The guy used black flourite and pfs. You get a 3 tone substrate (black, grey, tan). The first pic is just black flourite.

[cu0ngsayz]

Hummm doesn't look too bad. Maybe do a 70:30 more PFS than black sand

[mistahoo]

Hummm doesn't look too bad. Maybe do a 70:30 more PFS than black sand

It looks okay. I'd prefer just the black sand though... I think the guy did a 70:30, PFS:Black sand.