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Hi Folks,
On the subject of red, iron rich pottery clays. One reason that the pottery place is not
interested in shipping this product is because it is very expensive to ship a block of clay. Most
ceramic supply places will only ship clay in orders of 500#. The best thing to do is to go to
either a pottery studio (contacts the local arts group for the name of a potter nearest you) and an
art or ceramic supply store. I know in Austin Texas there is Armadillo Clay which has a number of
excellant clays to choose from. In two of my tanks I made a substrate out of pure kaolin (which is
white porcelian clay) and i added red iron oxide (to about 20%). This worked fairly well...and my
longest running tank has this substrate with beuatiful white roots growing throughout the clay.
John
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