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Title: I'm looking for about 60 pounds of small round natural gravel, any suggestions
Post by: greg y on September 18, 2013, 11:54:10 AM

I'm looking for about 60 pounds of small round natural gravel, any suggestions on where to go for the best deal?

Title: Re: I'm looking for about 60 pounds of small round natural gravel, any suggestions
Post by: TrailerParkFishTanks on September 18, 2013, 12:38:16 PM

If you don't mind washing and cleaning your own stuff you should hit up a landscape supply place. I use Angelo's in Wixom and you can pick what suits you for cheap. When I was looking for rocks to hard scape my tank I got about 120 lbs of rocks for 6 bucks. Pea gravel and others sizes are pretty cheap as well.

Title: Re: I'm looking for about 60 pounds of small round natural gravel, any suggestions
Post by: four_by_ken on September 18, 2013, 12:40:23 PM

A landscape business is where I got mine.

Cleaning was easy, not like sand.

Title: Re: I'm looking for about 60 pounds of small round natural gravel, any suggestions
Post by: greg y on September 18, 2013, 01:10:15 PM

think they might have some bb sized gravel?

Title: Re: I'm looking for about 60 pounds of small round natural gravel, any suggestions
Post by: four_by_ken on September 18, 2013, 01:17:27 PM

Any descent place will have multiple sizes of natural gravel.

Title: Re: I'm looking for about 60 pounds of small round natural gravel, any suggestions
Post by: Mission Man on September 19, 2013, 09:35:05 PM

Just found and bought a 50 pound bag of "Quickcrete General Purpose Gravel" which consisted of tumbled (rounded edge) pea sized and smaller natural colored gravel, very similar to aquarium type gravel, only for $3.20 at Lowe's.

Title: Re: I'm looking for about 60 pounds of small round natural gravel, any suggestions
Post by: Maize-N-Blue-D on September 20, 2013, 09:04:41 AM

Quote from: Mission Man on September 19, 2013, 09:35:05 PM

Just found and bought a 50 pound bag of "Quickcrete General Purpose Gravel" which consisted of tumbled (rounded edge) pea sized and smaller natural colored gravel, very similar to aquarium type gravel, only for $3.20 at Lowe's.

I swapped out to this stuff too...  very cheap and natural looking...

Title: Re: I'm looking for about 60 pounds of small round natural gravel, any suggestions
Post by: Regalblue on September 20, 2013, 09:21:00 AM

http://mobile.walmart.com/m/phoenix;jsessionid=FA0F552B26FF5A8FF24F8816327FCAA5#ip/Oil-Dri-Premium-Absorbent-25lbs/16930215

Title: Re: I'm looking for about 60 pounds of small round natural gravel, any suggestions
Post by: greg y on September 24, 2013, 11:16:21 PM

I ended up buying Safe T Sorb, it's really dirty and light but folks are having good results with it