spider72
Member
Hi guys.
My colleague from polish aquatic plant forum has been inspired from some time by James article about using akadama as a substrate. Unfortunately in Poland akadama is not easy to get and is also much more expensive. But he did not gave up and did reserch over internet about what bonsai keepers are using instead of akadama. He found that they are often using cat litter, as it is made of baked clay and have very similar properties to akadama, however not every cat litter made of clay is suitable (I have tested two, which are not).
So, he decided to give a "cat sand" a try and setup a test tank few days ago. You can see his test tank (not fully setup yet) and "cat sand" here http://www.roslinyakwariowe.pl/forum/vi ... hp?t=24479 I know that is in polish but there is also many pictures.
You can also try this link http://translate.google.co.uk/translate ... n&ie=UTF-8 with translation to english, but this translation is very bad.
If you will be interested in his experiment than I can invite him to this forum to answer your question or even ask him (or force him 😉 ) start parallel thread here as he is good english speaker.
Regards
My colleague from polish aquatic plant forum has been inspired from some time by James article about using akadama as a substrate. Unfortunately in Poland akadama is not easy to get and is also much more expensive. But he did not gave up and did reserch over internet about what bonsai keepers are using instead of akadama. He found that they are often using cat litter, as it is made of baked clay and have very similar properties to akadama, however not every cat litter made of clay is suitable (I have tested two, which are not).
So, he decided to give a "cat sand" a try and setup a test tank few days ago. You can see his test tank (not fully setup yet) and "cat sand" here http://www.roslinyakwariowe.pl/forum/vi ... hp?t=24479 I know that is in polish but there is also many pictures.
You can also try this link http://translate.google.co.uk/translate ... n&ie=UTF-8 with translation to english, but this translation is very bad.
If you will be interested in his experiment than I can invite him to this forum to answer your question or even ask him (or force him 😉 ) start parallel thread here as he is good english speaker.
Regards