What rocks are neutral?

[Danny]

Thinking of going with only RO and want to use rock in the scape but what is available that is totally neutral and will not effect the hardness at all?

 

[nayr88]

I've got a feeling dragon stone is ok. Will you be remineralising the RO or cutting with tap water?

 

[Iain Sutherland]

Dragon stone and slate pebbles are fine, maple leaf rock is suposed to be and would guess pagoda stone. Im sure there are others though...

 

[Danny]

Straight RO with Cardinal Tetra's

 

[nayr88]

Nice

Dragon stone is really reeeeaaally nice, you an get some air size chunks of it too, and it's easy to manipulate and break bits of to get nice shapes.

 

[Nathaniel Whiteside]

ADA Manten stone, is really nice. With shades of purple and green, you know when you see oil in puddles? Them deep rich colours, thats the colours in the manten stone.

I love it.

It also oozes wealth

 

[jack-rythm]

ADA Manten stone, is really nice. With shades of purple and green, you know when you see oil in puddles? Them deep rich colours, thats the colours in the manten stone.

I love it.

It also oozes wealth

Ask nath how much it was...

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[Nathaniel Whiteside]

Ask nath how much it was...

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Don't

 

[Ady34]

50p per tonne

 

[Piece-of-fish]

A kidney?

 

[somethingfishy]

Nah they know you have two kidneys they would want both

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[nayr88]

Is it THAT much ?

 

[Nathaniel Whiteside]

I bought 2 rocks for £60?

The bits in my Shrimp mini M

 

[BigTom]

I'm rather keen on the red igneous rocks in the stream half a mile from my house. Attractive, inert and most importantly not £30 a rock

Bit heavy though!

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
If you go for really hard rocks/pebbles from a builders merchant etc, you should be all right even if they are carboniferous limestone. Just take a 6" nail or nail file with you and try and scratch the ones you like the colour of.

red igneous rocks

Any igneous rock should be all right, if you avoid ones with obvious veins of iron pyrites (Fool's gold). Most dark coloured rocks will also be OK, as limestones are normally in the white, pale grey, cream colour range. Of the light coloured rock, any with obvious quartz crystals will also be OK, and you can get some really nice pebbles of granite for a light look, or gabbro for darker colours. Beaches are always a good source, as the majority of pebbles will be silica based, as they are much more resistant to wear, and over time the softer rocks are eroded away leaving the harder quartz based ones to accumulate.

Softer rocks you need to scrape some fragments from and then apply an acid to them, HCl is best, but spirit vinegar will do. Assuming they don't bubble they are OK.

cheers Darrel

 

[Danny]

Cheers for all the input guys, who would of thought finding some rocks would be such a challenge pmsl

 

[Nathaniel Whiteside]

Cheers for all the input guys, who would of thought finding some rocks would be such a challenge pmsl

..Or is finding yourself the underlying problem? Danielsonn

 

[Danny]

..Or is finding yourself the underlying problem? Danielsonn

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm......................Sorry mate lost me with that one pmsl

 

[Ady34]

He's gone all 'karate kid' on you Danny!

 

[Nathaniel Whiteside]

He's gone all 'karate kid' on you Danny!

All deep and shiz, Mr. Muyagi style.