Chick Grit

SCMurphy · Post by **SCMurphy** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:25 pm

There were some questions asked at the AGA meeting in Dallas to Luis Navarro about a gravel he uses.

See: <a href="http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/I ... 00/314.jpg" target="_blank">This pic</a>

He creates a bare front tank with a white-ish gravel which he called grit. I realized he meant chick grit which is the granite gravel farmers feed chicks to fill their crop and gizzard. I checked at the Southern States feed store in Germantown today and a 50 pound bag of chick grit is $5.00. Rather reasonable I would think. Dorothy Reimer also uses chick grit in her grow out tanks.

Ghazanfar, what did you think if the underwater color of the grit?

If I'm wrong about either the crop or gizzard using the grit, forgive me, I'm a fisheries biologist not an ornithologist.

sherrymitchell · Post by **sherrymitchell** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:17 pm

I sat next to a gentleman at the PVAS fall auction who
also swears by poultry grit for substrate. There are
several different grades, or types, from fine chick grit
to courser turkey grit. He said that he pushes
chunks of laterite down under the grit, placing them
next the the plant roots and that the plants loved it.
It's certainly cheap enough. Amano uses a white
sand in some of his tanks too, and that's really nice.
I wonder if Caribbean play sand would work?

sherry

RTRJR · Post by **RTRJR** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 11:23 pm

I had multiple tanks set following D. Riemer's techniques. It is/was fine turkey grit from Southern States for me. The fine grit is light, but not that much lighter than Onyx sand. Granite is not white, it is gray with black flecks. In fact, the first time I saw Onxy Gravel at the LFS I thought is was coarse health grit until I saw the price.

Too light for me, but so is Onyx Sand.

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Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 9:10 pm

I think the color underwater looked ok. Can't tell
how and entire foreground will look with it but
its cheap enough to experiement with. I think I'll
pick up a bag and try it. Maybe a medium grade...

jerseyjay · Post by **jerseyjay** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 1:48 am

One of you guys should try it and follow up with the pictures. I'm really interested in final outcome.

RTRJR · Post by **RTRJR** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 3:22 am

Ghazanfar - look at the grades before you select the bag. Medium is pretty coarse as I remember (it has been a while).

Chick Grit

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