How to detect whether stone is suitable for water tank in water plant? The experience that people have summed up is that acidic solutions such as toilet cleaner are dripped on stones for detection. If there are a lot of bubbles on the stone, it means that the stone is too hard and should be avoided. You can choose a small amount or none after washing. There are several kinds of landscape stones to choose from in the aquarium:
Qinglongshi 1
Qinglongshi is a kind of landscaping stone used in aquarium landscape, and it is called Qinglongshi because of its blue-black color. Natural Qinglong stone is angular, mountain-shaped, with many hollow stone eyes, blue-black ribbon with white irregular patterns, exquisite and colorful, and it is the best stone for aquatic plants and landscape tanks. Choosing the right place in the landscaping jar is very beautiful, natural and atmospheric, which can often create a natural landscape of mountains and rivers. The most commonly used stones in many competitions, especially the ADA International Watergrass Landscape Competition in Japan, can be said to be the secret of winning. Because of its different shapes, each piece is a unique stone, so the landscaping is also different, which is favored by the majority of aquarium landscape players. Because it is easy to form hard water quality, players should pay attention to the change of water quality.
2. Pine bark stone
Also known as stalagmite, fish scale stone, snakeskin stone, ginkgo stone, etc. Produced in calcareous land at the junction of Jiangxi and Zhejiang. Thin, leaking, transparent and wrinkled, there are two kinds of gray and purple-brown. Hard stones belonging to ornamental stones are mostly columnar, such as bamboo shoots. Therefore, it is called a combination of hard and soft. Stone breaks often have sharp edges and corners, which need to be polished and smooth before use. Natural stalagmites are very rare and precious. Stalagmites are strange in shape, slender and tall, like mushrooms after rain. It is interesting and unique to beautify the environment with this kind of stone. It is often used as an important stone species for landscaping. Now it is often used for aquatic plant landscaping. Although it also increases the hardness of water, its excellent shape has attracted many landscaping enthusiasts. Suitable for landscape setting of medium-sized fish tanks.
3. Taihu stone
I believe everyone should know what kind of stone this is, even if you can't see it, you can hear it. Whether it is an aquarium or a landscape, it is a rare stone. Taihu Stone should be used as some large aquarium scenery, and some large aquatic plants can be planted to form a beautiful scenery.
4. stalactites
Stalactites are formed by water containing calcium carbonate seeping from the top seam of caves. Calcium carbonate in water is evaporated and precipitated by water for decades or even millions of years. Stalactites can easily affect the hardening of water quality, so they are only suitable for seawater or hard-water fish (African cichlids).
5. Marble
Marble is mainly produced in southwest China. Marble is black and white with strong layering. Nature has endowed all kinds of wonderful landscapes, which are the essence of heaven and earth. Its wonderful charm gives people a pleasant artistic imagination, such as a beautiful picture scroll, which is enough to reflect its magic and extraordinary, integrating garden bonsai into one, and fully embodying the elegant and beautiful scenery of nature.
6.volcanic rocks
Also known as pumice, it is formed by the cooling of volcanic foam. Porous surface, soft texture, easy to absorb water, can grow moss and contain many minerals, which can be used as filter material or for raising hard water fish.
7.pebbles
I believe everyone knows that those small boulders and pebbles are gradually formed by long-term erosion of rocks. Smooth surface and rich colors. Among them, Nanjing Rainflower Stone (also a pebble) is famous all over the world. Suitable for small and medium-sized fish tanks, pebbles are also suitable for bottom sand.
8. Yingde Stone
Named after its origin in Yingde, Guangdong Province, it is a beautiful and changeable limestone formed by natural weathering and long-term erosion. Yingde stone is durable and not easy to be damaged, and it is an excellent material for landscaping and making landscape bonsai. At present, it is widely used in straw tanks, and it is hard water, which is not suitable for large-scale application.
9. axe cuts stones
Axe splitting stone belongs to shale, which is formed by long-term precipitation, and its content is mainly calcium and carbon. The color is mainly dark gray and black, but some gray is reddish rust or light gray, which is caused by the change of iron content and other metal content in the stone. Axes and stones can be used to make strange peaks and different walls.
10, sand and gravel
Sandstone is also called water stone, travertine and sandstone. Sandstone can be divided into fine sand and coarse sand due to the different size and thickness of sand particles. If the sand content is low and the argillaceous composition is high, it is also called mudstone. In the shape of bonsai, it is suitable to show the characteristics of Sichuan bonsai which is high, steep and deep. Loose structure, calcareous and hard, not suitable for haystack stone.
1 1, lapis lazuli
Huangshi belongs to quartzite with fine texture and smooth surface. It is named because its surface is wax oil, showing different degrees of yellow. The stone is good, but it is smooth and colorful, so it can be properly used in hay pots.
Fenglingshi 12
Wind fossils are mostly made of seasonal raw materials, and the famous ornamental stones are exquisite in texture, peculiar in pattern and exquisite in shape. The quality and shape of stones are suitable for grass basin landscaping, but the color needs to be considered.
13, wood fossil
The reason is that when the crust changes, a large number of trees are trapped underground. When the coal-making conditions are not enough, the carbon elements in trees are gradually replaced by SiO2 _ 2 and become very hard silica. According to the different causes, it can be divided into bamboo fossils, pine fossils, cypress fossils and so on. This kind of stone is very stable and suitable for keeping fish tanks.
1, 500 million years ago, Jurassic trees evolved into fossils through crustal movement and volcanic ash burial. There are gray, tan, brown and black. Wood fossils in the aquarium can show the vicissitudes of history more vividly. Wood fossils themselves are organic substances, which have evolved into inorganic substances over hundreds of millions of years. Their shapes still retain the outline of trees, and even the annual rings can be clearly seen from the profile, which is incomparable to any other rock. In the aquarium, green aquatic plants can represent the present, dead wood can represent the past, and wood fossils can represent the ancient times. This long-standing historical process is fully displayed in an exaggerated way in a small aquarium. From the aesthetic point of view, aquatic plants, submerged wood and wood fossils belong to the same sex but have different materials, that is, they present a unified composition and contain changing characteristics, that is, harmony and jumping. Wood fossils are rare gems in the aquarium, which are produced in Liaoning and Zhejiang. However, the current wood fossils are relatively square, and there is no wild and wild wind, which is properly applied to the grass jar landscaping.
14, Melaleuca
Stromatolite, also known as stromatolite, is composed of calcium carbonate and quartz, and belongs to marine sedimentary crystalline dolomite, which is hard and dense, heavy and does not absorb water. There is a thin weathered layer outside, which is soft; The texture on the stone is clear, mostly concave and convex, straight, with a certain rhythm, smooth lines and sometimes twists and turns. The colors are gray-black, gray-white, gray and brown, and the brown is slightly prominent, and the color and texture are relatively coordinated, natural and smooth; Strange and varied shapes, including mountains, caves and other natural landscapes, as well as images of towers, columns, figures and animals, are both concrete and abstract, both beautiful and elegant.
15, coral stone
Coral is no stranger to everyone. Coral rocks, like stalactites, are suitable for seawater or hard-water fish (African cichlids, etc.). ). Broken coral stones (coral sand) can be used as bottom sand.
16, Guishi
Also known as aeolian fossils, it is composed of various gravels with mixed colors and vertical and horizontal grooves. It is mainly composed of Carboniferous rocks, in which calcium will slowly dissolve in water, making the water quality hard. Therefore, it is not suitable to use and raise straw-vat soft-water fish in South America, but it can be used for landscaping of aquatic plants in Africa, suitable for hard-water fish and marine fish.
17, Boshan aragonite
The name originated from Boshan. In the late 1970s, a stone player named Boshan aragonite, which means a stone with lines. Later, masons in Zichuan referred to Boshan's name and called the aragonite collected by Liu Quan in Zichuan as aragonite (because it was produced near Pu Songling's hometown of Liu Quan). With the development of stone appreciation in Zibo, it is called Zibo aragonite. It is calcareous, divided into mountain stone, pictographic stone, exquisite stone and mountain stone, which is the condensation of natural peaks. The peaks should be majestic and handsome, with staggered heights, and the external contour should have changes in peaks, mountains, valleys and slopes. Very suitable for fish tank landscaping, high cost, not preferred.
18, Shell
There are many kinds of shells of marine life, such as conch and scallop. , strange shape, beautiful shape, bright colors, stacked in the water, just like in the underwater world, suitable for small fish tanks.
19, crystal stone
Its color is transparent milky white, its surface is smooth, its pattern is clear, its color is gorgeous and its shape is peculiar, so it can be used as an ornament of landscape or natural scenery. Its crystal-clear appearance is easy to remind people of the thorough underwater world, and its rendering effect and landscaping style are excellent, which is suitable for small and medium-sized aquariums.