Sean Murphy is the first to use mineralized soil in planted aquariums intentionally. Mineralized soil retains all of the beneficial nutrients but removes almost 100% of the organics that regular soil has. This minimizes the changes of algae while still providing your plants with the nutrition they need.

Items mentioned:

• Aaron Talbot's write up about Mineralized Soil and Sean's recipe at APC
• GWAPA site
• Dupla
• Potter's Clay
• Dolomite
• Muriate of Potash
• Dustin's Dirt

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