Desperation Sand
So I'm all over the web and it would seem that unless you want to pay .75c/lb on up for aragonite sand here in California your out of luck. I can order a truck load from Florida for only 260.00/ton + shipping min 18 tons. But I'm not sure I need 36000 lbs of the stuff. Then I had a though. Oyster shell chicken feed is just Calcium carbonate and Aragonite is just Calcium carbonate sand... I could pulverize oyster shells down to sugar sized bits for substrate :D I only need a couple of hundred pounds.
So I'm all over the web and it would seem that unless you want to pay .75c/lb on up for aragonite sand here in California your out of luck. I can order a truck load from Florida for only 260.00/ton + shipping min 18 tons. But I'm not sure I need 36000 lbs of the stuff. Then I had a though. Oyster shell chicken feed is just Calcium carbonate and Aragonite is just Calcium carbonate sand... I could pulverize oyster shells down to sugar sized bits for substrate :D I only need a couple of hundred pounds.