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Re: [Killietalk] walnut shells

I used it a bit in the early 70's and did not like it. It didn't wash out colors like silica sand but it had a tendency to pack and rot under water. Plus, with some species the shells stuck to the eggs. Rosario himself no longer uses it. He uses gravel for anything but a peat diver. A wonderful but time consuming method is to grind up your peat moss into fine dust for spawning and then sift it through a net in water until only eggs remain. 
   
  Bobby

Brian Watters <bwatters at shaw_ca> wrote:
  Many years ago (in the 60s ?) some hobbyists, such as Rosario LaCorte, tried
ground up walnut shell as a spawning mediun for Nothos. Presumably, this was
more finely ground than the crushed variety you are referring to. There were
one or two article written in JAKA-KN at the time about this. I cannot
remember what the general consensus was but I would very much doubt that it
would have been superior to peat moss.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Gary Smith
> Sent: February 2, 2008 10:04 AM
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> Subject: [Killietalk] walnut shells
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>
> Hi all,
> I was just at the local petstore and I seen a bag of
> crushed english walnut shells for reptile bedding. Anyone seen
> this or have tried it for breeding nothos.
> Gary
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