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Separaiton of calcareous stone lowering white deposit

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I have been troubled white deposit of an aquarimu tank. I had mixed two different gravels long time ago. The photo "Half of stone" shows the dried mixed gravel. I doubt the white stone contains calcareous much. Tap water contains 0.2g/L CaCO3 etc in Japan by a site. The tank of capacity 60L contains 12g of solved substance at least.

I shieved the gravel at first. The sieve has mesh size 1.5x2mm (60x80mil) with distorted shape. The cheap gravel for aquarium cracked, I think. It made the sieved flakes. Next, I separated half of the shieved gravel by hand. Seperated good gravel are in the box. The diameter of the plate is 20cm (7.9"). I was tired of separation.

Sieved
Fig.1 Sieved stone
Scale
Fig.2 Enlarged
Sieve
Fig.3 Half of stone
Mixed
Fig.4 Sieve
All
Fig.5 All the stone
Separated
Fig.6 Separated by hand

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