Pettex Aquatic Roman Gravel Natural Grey Mix 8 Kg

Switched to gravel from our original sand setup and much prefer it as it's much easier to clean and the fish appear to prefer it too.It took a fair amount of washing. I can't remember exactly how long but it ran into days rather than hours. The initial wash was simply to remove the surface debris, I then left it to soak for around 24hrs and then rinsed it again. Another long stand was followed by a final rinse and then it was ready to go in... within minutes of it going in my tank was completely clouded but that was due to the filter choosing that exact moment to give up and die. Typical!With a new filter installed the water cleared within an hour or so and my little swimmers were transferred back into their new-look home. I've not had any complaints so far so must assume that they like it. They're all eating well so I'm taking that as a win. It's expensive, considering it's simply dug out of the ground and packed, and it's absolutely identical to the stuff already on our driveway, but nobody forced me to buy it. I probably wouldn't buy it again but mainly because I'm really tight rather than the product being rubbish.

Our aquarium needed a new gravel and this is an excellent option.It wasn’t as bad to clean as some gravels are, before putting it in the tank. Just washed it part by part, nice and easy.The gravel itself has lots of colours from pinks, purples, whites, and bits of blue and green too. This seems to be discontinued from nearly all other places so although it is a fraction dearer than normal, it’s prob because you will have trouble getting it else where.I’ll be buying a second bag for another aquarium before they sell out.It’s easy to clean once in the aquarium too (using an electric gravel cleaner).The pieces are a nice size, and very nice mix of shapes and colours.Would recommend.The item picture doesn’t really show how good it really is.

I was being bothered by little black flies - sciads! Looked at RHS website. These lay eggs in top layer of damp soil. It recommended small stones on top to at least 1cm on each pot. Looked at loads of stuff to enable me to do this. Loved the colour of these stones. Also the fact they can be washed so can be reused when repotting again - bonus! Apologies don't have fish so no idea how they work in that environment.

Bit on the pricey side as all of these sort of products seem to be on amazon. However i am happy with the purchase after now having it for at least 3 months. Did take about 3-4 rinses to get most of the loose "dust" off hwoever once in the tank and filled up it looked pretty clear straight away.Bought 1 bag and had a small amount left over after generously filling a fluval flex with at least 2/3 inches.Colour looks good and all my fish are happy - doesn't look to sharp or aggressive even if you wanted to keep loaches etc.

Much much darker than photo - almost to the point where I'd say they'd sent the wrong colour. Easily covers the bottom of my 27L tank at least 3x so I've got plenty left over. Took about 3 or 4 washes through to get it clean. I just wish the photos were more accurate

Absolutely beautiful this gravelIt looks like it has purple jade stones/quartz.Very smooth and easy to clean just a quick rinse and pop it in. I brought the 8kg for a 105l tank and still have a quarter left :)

Setting up a new 105 ltr for another tropical aquarium so I thought I’d buy the lighter gravel it was a quick deliver easy to clean and once rinsed very little clouding in tank when filling looks really nice clean I’ve bought another bag for when it’s time to change another tank

Good quality gravel to be recommended. My only quibble and the reason for 3 stars rather than 5, is that although it does indeed appear "Natural Grey Mix" as described when dry, as soon as it's wet, it's actually very much a beige mix, so not what I had in mind for my fish tank at all. As this is sold specifically for putting in fish tanks, it would be helpful that the colour description was based on it's appearance when wet, not dry. Obviously I had cut open the packet and started to wash the gravel before this became apparent, so a return would have been problematic. The sellers description is fairly accurate in it's dry state, but definitely not once it's wet.