Kolorscape mini marble chips..

[FreshyFresh]

Don't waste your time on the vinegar test unless you really want to see what a "failure" looks like. Marble will fizz because vinegar has a pH of about 3. Just don't try keeping blackwater stuff and you'll be fine.

Whelp.. Not sure what Kolorscape's product it, but it didn't fizz at all in a bath of 5% acidity apple cider vinegar:

Here's da new fiddy-five.. in setup mode. Stuffed some used bio media in the canister and transferred the zebra danios from the 10 to the fiddy..:

 

[pbeemer]

are you sure it's really marble? most crushed decorative white rock is quartz, which should be pretty darned inert

 

[lovemybarbs]

Interesting. Can you get a closer pic of the tank when you have time?

 

[FreshyFresh]

are you sure it's really marble? most crushed decorative white rock is quartz, which should be pretty darned inert

That's what I'm thinking. It doesn't say on the bag what the actual contents are aside from "mini-marble chips" from Kolorscape. You can Google the product. $3/bag at BLowes. I really like it. Looks great with the T5 HO lighting.

 

[FreshyFresh]

Interesting. Can you get a closer pic of the tank when you have time?

Here it is under rainy day, daylight. It might be a bit chunkier than some people's liking. It's very similar in size/config to the Lowes bought pea gravel I have in my 29gal.

 

[Jody]

I like it , might try something like that in my cray tank

 

[rufioman]

Crays would love that. I would really like to do a native cray tank with a chunkier, smaller substrate like that.

 

[FreshyFresh]

Just an update on the use of these marble chips:

I'm about 6 weeks into having this tank setup and stocked. I probably wouldn't use this product as substrate again. The product is perfectly fine. The bright white is not. It's like having white carpeting. It shows every turd and darkens with algae very quickly. Live and learn!

It has had zero effect on the pH in the tank. It hasn't changed per my API kit.

 

[Brian Anderson]

Nice to know!


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[platytudes]

Unfortunately I have noticed that white substrate attracts algae a lot more...my favorite substrate is the small fine brown pea gravel Petco sells: http://www.petco.com/product/115871/Petco-River-Rock-Shallow-Creek-Aquarium-Gravel.aspx

This substrate is a great compromise between sand and gravel, and works great in an undergravel filter, the smaller stuff colonizes a lot more bacteria.