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Turface/Profile Professional Aquatic Soil
>At 03:48 AM 10/23/98 -0400, Bob Sumner wrote:
>> I came across something called Professional Aquatic Soil. It is
>>designed to be used in artificial backyard ponds and appears to be a red
>>clay that has been baked and ground to a sand-like texture. Cheap, too.
>>The label indicate exactly what it is made of. Anyone have any
>>experience with this?
>See:
> http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/Fertilizer/laterama.html
>for further info.
More info: Made by Aimcor Consumer Products, 800-654-8793
Tech support: Mary Beth
Local distributors lots of places
Turface is an additive to baseball infield base paths.
PAS is an additive to potting/pond substrates.
Some bonsai guys use Turface?
I have tech info and tech support on the way.
If this stuff is good, it will be a lot like Duplarit G (that's the
laterite crumbs, right George?). The Turface comes in small irregular
crumbs and very tiny irregular crumbs. The PAS comes in three grades, I
believe they are cylindrical.
How would we know if it were good? Similar CEC? Similar growth results
in the Booth lab?
I'll bet its a ton less dusty than potter's laterite (it would be hard to
think of something more dusty). And it may not penetrate UGF plates either.
And it is cheap as dirt! ;^)> It comes in 50# sacks for about $10.
Let us all know if you find anything out. George, would you want to try a
tank with some in place of the laterite?
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Dave Gomberg, San Francisco mailto:gomberg at wcf_com
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