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Originally Posted by sirdoofus
The stuff I bought didn't look as course as the course sand in PR Giants' posts, but it is definitely courser than other sand I was able to find. It has been washed and strained to remove the fines, but probably not a bad idea to consider adding some courser material.
I pulled one of the pups and it looked OK, not stellar, but not bad either. Didn't really look like it had started pushing any new roots (although maybe), and some of the roots that were transplanted had started to turn black (my understanding is that's not terribly unusual and hopefully not a harbinger of failure). The corm seemed fine. I guess we'll just see what happens.
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when hector started this he used just pool filter sand. then he graduated to the mix that you are seeing. so i suspect he had some failures with just pool filter sand.
one cheap way to get your mix a bit larger is mixing in aquarium rock. use the rough textured aquarium rock as appossed to the round pebbly rock.