Rocks

[weejen]

Where is the best place to get rocks to aquascape a 150l tank fully without costing a bomb

 

[ellena]

Garden centre/quarry? Any particular type of rock?

 

[weejen]

Garden centre/quarry? Any particular type of rock?

Don't realy no but something rugged kind of looks like coral. Any suggestions?

 

[pauld]

i went to homebase in there garden centre bits they have large rocks for garden rockerys they always have what they call chippings in the boxes of rocks we would call them perfect size for fish tank rocks i got the girl friend to smile nicely at the village idiot they always have one working in the garden centre bit and he gave them to us for nothing .

 

[weejen]

Are they safe for fish tanks? And is there a way to check there safe?

 

[pauld]

iwent for the hard granite type gave them a mega srub been in the tank for over a year they also have some nice slate there im not sure about soft pourus rocks they mite leach something id stick to hard rocks .

 

[weejen]

Are they quite cheap? It's pay day tomoz and I am off so bank ballance mite take a hit

 

[pauld]

there cheap they sell by the killo but smile nice and you will get what they call chippings for nothing they skip them because there to small for garden rockerys .

 

[weejen]

Cool thanx for the heads up on that. I will do

 

[meguro]

use vinegar to test if theyre safe, bubbling/fizzing means theyre not

 

[pauld]

did you get your rocks ?

 

[weejen]

Yeah I got 20kg of Cornish silver cobbles for £3

 

[pauld]

Yeah I got 20kg of Cornish silver cobbles for £3

there you go never broke the bank lol you should have smiled more lol put a pic of ur tank on with the rocks in .

 

[weejen]

Yeah I should have lol but can't complain for £3. There is a pic of how it looks now in my other thread titled makeover