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Posted	Stone Balls
13-09-2006 14:16 by Malawimad	In 1 of my lfshops, Rainbow Aquatics @ Mexborough, Rotherham.. He uses like little stone balls in a section which has been seperated from the main part of the holding tanks, I asked him what these stones we're and he told me 1 of his pals works on the railway lines and they use these balls as a base before setting new sleepers in for the new track, apparantly he's got loads of the stuff but he isn't prepared to sell any..... Any idea what it could be?
13-09-2006 15:28 by Danny Boy	i thought they used scalpings.. might be a diffrent version of the same thing?
13-09-2006 15:42 by Malawimad	Scalpings DB? These are like a swan shot size what he uses, Like a pea.... He uses nothing else filter wise, just these balls encased within another section of each tank! What are scalpings ?
13-09-2006 16:22 by Bruce	Has rainbow got anything good in? As i haven't been for a long time.
13-09-2006 16:24 by Malawimad	Not really Bruce, Had a nice pair of eels and somekind of snake things, to be honest the place is a **** hole, i only use him for malawis and other bits!
13-09-2006 16:35 by PaddyD	Not sure what they are, but all it is is a biological filter media - Siporax or swimilar would do a better job. - But the theory is fine, thats all you need. A medium for bacteria to ive on - of course it is nice to have a sponge to filter out the big bits.
13-09-2006 16:46 by rob r	scalpings. small smashed slate or other solid materials
13-09-2006 16:52 by Malawimad	Cheers Rob!
13-09-2006 20:06 by darren653	i think i know what you mean malawimad. Are they brown in colour. My lfs has them in all his filters too. Not sure where he got them from though
14-09-2006 10:39 by Alan	Might be perlite not sure though having said that perlite would float for quite sometime as they are full of void space hence the quality of the media I would imagine. Scalpings is a term often used in the Aggregate industry used to describe waste material from aggregate processing there is no fixed specific material chemically speaking that could be described as scalpings.
14-09-2006 11:23 by darren653	yeh i was going to say that i thought scalpings was another name for MOT/ type 1 that you wak down as a base for patios
14-09-2006 12:33 by maureen benson	Would these be the little clay balls that garden centres use for their hydroponic grown plants ( don't need soil) ?
14-09-2006 13:27 by Malawimad	Hydroponic Maureen? What kind of shop is this then
14-09-2006 18:02 by Ray	Hi,I think what you are asking about is lightweigh expanded clay aggregate,I use it to put at the base of tropical plants to provide moist air,it is usually imported from Germany but I cant rember the brand name
15-09-2006 10:26 by Alan	Or roads darren MOT standing for ministry of transport type 1 this I believe is not good enough for railways. Don't quote me on that though it certainly is not scalpings, scalpings are a marketable waste product. I think those clay ball things are called perlite not sire for certain.

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