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10-27-2006, 01:03 AM

Eco Complete is mined, not manufactured. So, it is possible and has happened before, for them to get batches that have calcium carbonate mixed in accidentally. At least that is how I remember the problem that happened with a big bad batch of Eco Complete several months ago.


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10-27-2006, 01:10 AM

Here is a thread that is a couple of years old about the Eco Complete. This thread was imported from Aquabotanic's Wet Thumb forum during the merger with APC. Unfortunately, the thread I linked to in my response (post #5) in no longer available on APC. That thread had pics of the white chunks folks had found in their Eco Complete.

Again, it was not the African Cichlid mix that Carib Sea sells, it was in fact Eco Complete for Planted Tanks


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10-27-2006, 01:23 AM

I went through my old pics and found one photo from June of '04 that has a couple of visible white chunks in it



You can see one small chunk directly under the leaf of the A. barteri 'nana' and another one to the far right up against the glass. This is what folks were finding in their Eco Complete back then and I imagine it could still be a problem today


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10-27-2006, 12:20 PM

Thanks all When I opened the bags of eco-complete it was all black and had no white calcium carbonate in That I saw at all.

I added sum of super naturals media my have calcium carbonate mixed in put they said no.


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I went through my old pics and found one photo from June of '04 that has a couple of visible white chunks in it



You can see one small chunk directly under the leaf of the A. barteri 'nana' and another one to the far right up against the glass. This is what folks were finding in their Eco Complete back then and I imagine it could still be a problem today

How did you get the pic to show up big from Image shack?
My pic is small.


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I am still learning names if someone can tell me this.
sodium bicarbonate- nahc03is is baking soda for KH.
magneium sufate - mgso4 is epison salt
but calcium carbonate - cac03 is with common name that you all use for DH?


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11-01-2006, 05:29 PM

Baking soda = sodium bicarbonate, bicarbonate of soda, NaHCO3
Epsom Salt = MgSO4 (hydrated = with some water in the crystal structure)
Crushed Coral = CaCO3, calcium carbonate


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Baking soda = sodium bicarbonate, bicarbonate of soda, NaHCO3
Epsom Salt = MgSO4 (hydrated = with some water in the crystal structure)
Crushed Coral = CaCO3, calcium carbonate

what do you use as crushed coral it has many way it is sold at the store?


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what do you use as crushed coral it has many way it is sold at the store?
I don't use any calcium carbonate. I do have a container of Seachem Equilibrium in case I feel a need to increase the GH, but lately I have felt no such need. When I feel a need to increase KH I use baking soda, but, except for experiments, I haven't felt that need for quite awhile either.


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I don't use any calcium carbonate. I do have a container of Seachem Equilibrium in case I feel a need to increase the GH, but lately I have felt no such need. When I feel a need to increase KH I use baking soda, but, except for experiments, I haven't felt that need for quite awhile either.

thank you that is what I needed to know the off the self brands.


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