Li@m Posted November 24, 2011 Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 As title states. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirt Posted November 24, 2011 Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 :slfg: I'd like to know too. And where do you find it? Sorry for hijacking your thread. :roey: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted November 24, 2011 Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 $15 for a 10L bag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirt Posted November 24, 2011 Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 Is it like an Auckland thing? On their site most of the places are in Auckland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Li@m Posted November 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 Cool thanks Joe. @Squirt, try your local Bunnings/mitre 10/Nurseries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
si_sphinx Posted November 24, 2011 Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 I got mine from a nursery and it cost me $25 a bag because of the cost to get it sent down here. The Nursery ordered it from Daltons for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markvs Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 As I remember it cost less than $10 per bag at my local garden cenmtre, but that was about a year ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirt Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 I found a somewhat of a substitute today, Im going back out tomorrow and I'll find some silica sand and because this substitute is low nutrients I'll have to find some nutrients that slow releasing.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supasi Posted November 26, 2011 Report Share Posted November 26, 2011 I found a somewhat of a substitute today, Im going back out tomorrow and I'll find some silica sand and because this substitute is low nutrients I'll have to find some nutrients that slow releasing.... That kinda defeats the purpose then. Aquatic Mix is used because it is full of nutrients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirt Posted November 26, 2011 Report Share Posted November 26, 2011 Yeah, I'll mix some NPK in with it? Or what should I mix to make it more nutrient rich? And too much substrate fertilizer + only hairgrass and riccia=algae problems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishplants Posted November 28, 2011 Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 As title states. Cheers. $11 for 15 litres from Bunnings, Christchurch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sup42 Posted September 10, 2012 Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 The gardening staff member at Bunnings Mt Wellington I asked today had never heard of it. I got it from Stone and Water World instead with a Sack of Silica Sand. Think I paid about fifteen bucks for the Daltons and eighteen for the 25kg Sack of Sand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simwiz Posted September 11, 2012 Report Share Posted September 11, 2012 What's with "Daltons"?! Is it good or what??? Pictures of tanks using this please!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
si_sphinx Posted September 11, 2012 Report Share Posted September 11, 2012 Have a look at my thread in "Freshwater". I have used it. plants grow well with it BUT i didn't put a thick enough layer of gravel on top of it and I have major algae issues with too much ferts releasing into the water from the substrate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrendanNSANZ Posted September 11, 2012 Report Share Posted September 11, 2012 Have a look at my thread in "Freshwater". I have used it. plants grow well with it BUT i didn't put a thick enough layer of gravel on top of it and I have major algae issues with too much ferts releasing into the water from the substrate. You didn't appear to lay much down, at least that's what the pictures suggest. Could the problem of leaching perhaps be the type of gravel used to cap the soil rather than lack of thickness in the cap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
si_sphinx Posted September 11, 2012 Report Share Posted September 11, 2012 Yes it is a very thin layer, I ran out of gravel :roll: I have been meaning to add a layer of sand. That should top it off and stop anything coming through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeebee Posted September 11, 2012 Report Share Posted September 11, 2012 I have 2" of sand on top. Daltons is great! Not great when u have cichlids which dig into the sand though... :facepalm: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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