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Aragonite For Snail Breeders / Keepers Four Pounds

Item #1304962163

Current Auction Time: Wed May 15 14:31:14 2024

		Final:	$10.00		First Bid	$10.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	1 (bid history)
		Started	May 9 2011 - 12:32:14 AM		Location	Benton KY 42025 United States
		Ended	May 9 2011 - 12:29:23 PM Auction Closed
		Seller	Fishguy_1955 (5842/5873)
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		High Bidder	Impala01 (234/234)
		Payment	Money Orders/Cashiers Check, Personal Checks, See Item Description, PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to United States or Canada Only Buyer Pays Fixed Amount, See Item Description

Seller assumes all responsibility for listing this item. You should contact the seller to resolve any questions before bidding. Currency is U.S. dollars (US$) unless otherwise noted.

Description

Four Pounds Of Aragonite Brand Crushed Coral

Raises And Maintains pH To Strengthen And Preserve Snail's Shells

Click HERE to See My Other Auctions And Other Quantities Of Aragonite Currently Offered

Perhaps the greatest challenge encountered in keeping and breeding freshwater snails is providing water conducive to strong, healthy shell growth.  In order to prevent deadly shell erosion your tanks pH should be kept well above 7.0.  This can be difficult when your water may be near a pH of 7 right out of the tap and everything from feeding to the snail's normal metabolic processes act to drive pH ever downward.

Aragonite crushed coral can alleviate or totally eliminate this problem when used as a substrate or filter medium in your snail tank.  As a substrate it can simply be spread about either on the bare glass tank bottom or on top of your current gravel.  As a filter medium it works great in inside bottom filters or you can even bury a sponge filter in it to increase the filter capacity of the sponge many times over.

 

Aragonite maintains a high pH without the constant addition of chemicals. When the pH in your aquarium falls below 8.2, Aragonite snaps into action, breaking down into calcium (great for water hardness), carbonate (your buffer), and various beneficial trace elements like Magnesium. Your pH comes back up and the tank stays healthy, all without ever adding a single chemical. Other types of calcium carbonate don't react until the pH is in the mid 7's. In fact, Aragonite holds the highest pH of any gravel or sand, and has up to 30 times the buffering capacity of Dolomite, Calcite ("crushed corals"), or Oyster shell! Plus, unlike ordinary substrates, Aragonite never needs replacement, buffering automatically for the life of an aquarium. 

In addition to maintaing the pH of your aquarium, Aragonite is a high capacity bio-filter. Aragonite is extremely porous, about 20,000 square inches of surface area per cubic inch!  Imagine the beneficial bacteria population you can maintain with it. This is why Aragonite is unsurpassed in reducing nitrates, nitrites, and ammonia, allowing a bio-load many times greater than other substrates. You would have to buy four bags of ordinary gravel to equal the surface area available for water purifying bacteria in one bag of Aragonite.

This auction is for four pounds of  Aragonite Crushed Coral - Priority Mail shipping with delivery confirmation is $5.00 to anywhere in the US / Puerto Rico.  All others please email for shipping costs before bidding or buying.  Canada is usually very close to US shipping cost.

Thanks for viewing our auction!

Paul P.

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Impala01 (234/234)		May 9 2011 - 04:07:14 AM		$10.00

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