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Offline greg y

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

Offline TrailerParkFishTanks

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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.
I have about 18,000 rounds of .223 I'm  looking to get rid of, 100 rd bags. 1-4 bags $40 ea, 5-9 bags $38 ea, 10 or more bags $35 ea. I can't put this in the for sale section, its not fish related. No shipping.

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A landscape business is where I got mine.

Cleaning was easy, not like sand.

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think they might have some bb sized gravel?

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Any descent place will have multiple sizes of natural gravel.

Offline Mission Man

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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.

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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...
« Last Edit: September 20, 2013, 09:07:03 AM by Maize-N-Blue-D »
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I ended up buying Safe T Sorb, it's really dirty and light but folks are having good results with it