Just make sure if buying from a well drilling outfit that it is
calcium or southern bentonite, and not sodium or western bentonite.
Well drillers normally use western (sodium ) bentonite and yes that
too is available in 5 gal pails in granulated, and pelleted
forms.........CALCIUM or SOUTHERN is what you want not WESTERN or
SODIUM.......

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:29:48 GMT, " George"
wrote:

===
==="Roy" wrote in message
et...
=== Is calcium bentonite clay finely ground and sold at excessively high
=== prices...........to ponders as a miricle cure all for ponds and fish.
=== I am not argueing it may have benefits, but the price certainly is not
=== even close in line with what you can buy a 50 or 100 pound bag of
=== calcium bentonite clay for, from a foundry supply, or feed mill
=== for......The jopker on Ebay is probably doing just that, and only
=== needs to sell one bag of the stuff and his 100 pound sack is paid for
=== in full.....Even with shipping, the cost of a 50# bag is still cheaper
=== 10 times over than buying packaged koi clay and paying the price
=== gouging prices.
===
===You can get a 100lbs bag of bentonite at an industrial pump or drilling
===supply company for about $6-10/bag. Do a search on whitepages.com for one
===or both of these businesses in your area, then call them and check on
===availability. They also make it in pellets, which is much easier to use,
===but a bit more expensive. The other advantage of pellets is that they come
===in 5-gallon buckets that are resealable.
===


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