Excellent! Consulting with my ex-chemist wife to make sure we're getting the appropriate product of the 20 variants available. Thanks! - Erik On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Scott Frayo wrote: > > As a research scientist for the UW, I think I can field this one. > > Try Sigma Chemicals: > http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/Area_of_Interest/The_Americas/United_States.html > > They are huge international corporation with very reasonable prices and have > more chemicals than god. I'm pretty sure that they will ship to an > individual as well. If not, contact me offline and I can probably work > something out for you. > > -----Scott > > > R. Scott Frayo > Insular Species Conservation Society (ISCS) > Board of Trustees, Scientific Committee Chairperson > www.iscsgroup.org > > Pacific Northwest Herpetological Society > 2006 President, 2008 President > www.pnwhs.org > > ---------------------------------------- >> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:24:09 -0700 >> From: erik@thekrib.com >> To: gsas-member@thekrib.com >> Subject: [GSAS-Member] Bulk chemicals - help! >> >> For the past umpteen years, Kathy and I have foregone the pricey "Cichlid >> Salts" and mixed our own formula for our Lake Tanganyika tanks. This >> formula consists of dumping in roughly equal parts Calcium Carbonate and >> Magnesium Carbonate. It's cheap, it's relatively accurate for Lake >> Tanganyika, and it's not so harsh on plants. >> >> Unfortunately, our umpteen year supply just ran out, and we're kinda >> stumped where to get more. We tried Welch-Allyn, which has reasonably >> decent prices on both, but they cancelled our order because we're not an >> educational institution. Bah! How utterly annoying. >> >> Anyway, does anyone have any ideas where one might obtain inexpensive Mag >> Carb and Calcite? Also, if others are interested, I might try to >> coordinate a group buy. >> >> - Erik >> >> -- >> Erik Olson >> erik at thekrib dot com >> _______________________________________________ >> GSAS-Member mailing list >> GSAS-Member@thekrib.com >> http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member > > _________________________________________________________________ > Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. > http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_072008 > _______________________________________________ > GSAS-Member mailing list > GSAS-Member@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member > -- Erik Olson erik at thekrib dot com _______________________________________________ GSAS-Member mailing list GSAS-Member@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member