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muck
07-19-2004, 10:53 PM
Anyone here try to make there own rock??

What did you use for filler. Anything other than crushed oyster shells.
Curious to see what others used...

Richer
07-19-2004, 11:01 PM
I've got no experience here... but I have heard of people putting in pasta (cooked I presume) into their rockwork... supposedly, during the curing process the pasta will disintegrate and help in forming porous rock.

-Richer

bear27
07-19-2004, 11:25 PM
The same thing can be done with compressed co2 or o2 depending on what you have or want to use

If you airate a thick mixture you will end up with the constancy of an areo bar

EmilyB
07-20-2004, 02:56 AM
The macaroni thing sucks I hear - do some searches on here as there have been several discussions on this. Several Calgarians made their own rock. :biggrin:

johnny rock
07-20-2004, 03:46 PM
I use a mixture of SOUTHDOWN fine sand] and ARRAGONITE along with the osyter shells. works great.

muck
07-20-2004, 03:52 PM
I use a mixture of SOUTHDOWN fine sand] and ARRAGONITE along with the osyter shells. works great.
Thanks for the tips, Johnny!!

Must be nice to have easy access to SOUTHDOWN cheap sand. :razz:

Any chance you could send me a few pics of how your DIY rock turned out??