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___________Snail Breeder's Perfect Shell Solution |
Item #1402536282 |
Current Auction Time: Wed May 8 01:27:11 2024
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Final: | $6.75 | First Bid | $6.75 | ||
Time left | 00:00 | # of Bids | 1 (bid history) | |||
Started | May 28 2014 - 08:24:42 PM | Location | Paducah KY 42002 United States | |||
Ended | Jun 11 2014 - 08:24:42 PM Auction Closed |
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Seller | Fishguy_1955 (5838/5869) | |||||
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High Bidder | Keithwarford (44/45) | |||||
Payment | Money Orders/Cashiers Check, See Item Description, PayPal | |||||
Shipping | Will Ship to United States Only Buyer Pays Fixed Amount, See Item Description |
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Three Pounds Of Aragonite Brand Two Pounds Of Aragonite Brand Crushed Coral
Raises And Maintains pH To Strengthen And Preserve Snail Shells
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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 alleviates 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 which do not work and can actually be very harmful. 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, or Oyster shell. Unlike ordinary substrates, Aragonite never needs replacement, buffering automatically for the life of an aquarium.
In addition to maintaining the pH of your aquarium, Aragonite is a high capacity bio-filter. It 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 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 two pounds of Aragonite Crushed Coral - Priority Mail shipping with delivery confirmation is $5.00 to anywhere in the US/Puerto Rico.
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Bid History:
Bidders Bid Time Bid Comments Keithwarford (44/45) Jun 9 2014 - 12:02:23 PM $6.75 BUY IT NOW
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