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Buying Calcuim Carbonate?
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um.......... where, and what form is it in?????  :confused:

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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: 0xYg3n]
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look for chalk (basically calcium carbonate)
or crushed oyster shells
look in yr grocery store or health food store
or look in a pet store around the bird supply area

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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: muse_sick]
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ok, thx man

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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: 0xYg3n]
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man I still can't find this stuff :confused:

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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: 0xYg3n]
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think 12 crushed egg shells would be enough calcium carbonate?

edit: unless you know of a sure place to find crushed oyster shells?

Edited by 0xYg3n (06/03/04 10:11 PM)

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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: 0xYg3n]
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will bird calcium cuttlebones or gypsum work? they include not only calcium carbonate but other minerals as well.......

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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: 0xYg3n]
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I've successfully used calcium supplents for reptiles. You can find it in any pet store for about 3 bux. It's in a white powdered form. And yes, crushed egg shells work well too.


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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: 0xYg3n]
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I bought calcium carbonate (called calcium carbonicum here) in a "apotheke" in germany.. Don't know exactly what that is in english.. Drug Store maybe? The place where you buy medicine and so..  :grin:


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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: 0xYg3n]
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those cuttle bone work fine ive used them and had success

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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: 0xYg3n]
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Yes, drug store. Caltrate is a brand name you can get. It often comes as Calcium + Vitamin D. I don't think your shroomies need vitamin D, so be sure to just get plain ol Calcium (the back will say Calcium Carbonate)


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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: 0xYg3n]
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Was I mistaken or did I read in the one of these replies that chalk works as calcium carbonate?

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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: Triperific]
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yeah, i don't know about the chalk....

anyways I went down to petsmart looking for a cuttlebone and ended up finding "Jurassi Cal". It's a calcium supplement for Reptiles and Amphibians and the ingredients is Calcium Carbonate.

It was 4.99 US, pretty expensive for the most common mineral in the world, but I was still glad to see it =).

I'll probably also crush up the egg shells from this morning and use that as well.

thx for the replies guys.

Edited by 0xYg3n (06/04/04 02:52 PM)

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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: 0xYg3n]
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Also, if you're using crushed oyster shell anyway, just throw some of that in the blender and turn it into a powder. Works pretty well.


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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: Triperific]
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Triperific said:
Was I mistaken or did I read in the one of these replies that chalk works as calcium carbonate?



as far as the woman in the drug store told me, pure chalk is calcium carbonate..


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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: nimbus]
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yes, but don't grind up blackboard chalk. I don't think that's calcium carbonate. Go to a construction warehouse... they have the right stuff there usually.


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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: 0xYg3n]
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The reptile stuff is good, it's called calci-sand, 99% pure calcium carbornate. It comes in all colors, including glow-in-the-dark(makes for cool casings) I believe T-rex makes it.

apotheke is an apothecary, basically yes, a drug store.

mycomancer

Edited by Mycomancer (06/04/04 04:55 PM)

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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: Mycomancer]
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aWwwWWwWwWw....... my casing looks Beautiful.......

you guys shoulda seen my cakes......... I dunked them, they ended up leaking so i had to transfer them into heavier duty baggies... then they got contaminated by trichoderma mold.... so i cut off all edges put them back in there original jars and waited till they recolonized teh outside... then crumpled and cased...

they didn't soak too well in baggies either.... i had to then transfer them into a large tea jar and added the 1 part bleach to 200 parts water... also used quite a bit of H202, but they still didn't come through.

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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: Mycomancer]
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did u tryed the colored ones???

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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: trippysmurf]
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No construction warehouse, a store with supplies for the garden is better IMHO.


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Re: Buying Calcuim Carbonate? [Re: MushroomFriend]
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many Calcium carbonate brands (or lime) burn shrooms.

I think we all need an expert to recomend a trustable BRAND, and maybe even a link ... something that will work 4 sure

THANX!!

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