Scaper's Soil

Scaper's Soil is an active substrate specially developed for aquariums. It creates slightly acidic, soft water, which most animals and plants from tropical areas love. Scaper's Soil is ideal for plant aquariums, especially aquascaping, and shrimp aquariums.

Scaper's Soil consists of 100% natural raw materials. Made from various, carefully selected, natural soils, it provides all the vital minerals and trace elements that aquarium plants need on a daily basis. The irregularly shaped grains with a diameter of 1 to 4 mm make the soil look particularly natural. Its loose structure allows optimal soil drainage, and plant roots can grow in well. Scaper's Soil offers the perfect basis for healthy, powerful plant growth and magnificent colors. Mosses also benefit from this and show it through compact growth and lush green leaves. The deep black coloring creates an intense, lively contrast to the bright green of the plants.

Scaper's Soil effectively prevents annoying algae growth for 3 reasons:

Due to the special nutrient formula, the nutrients primarily benefit the plants, not the algae.
Through the nutrient buffer function: like a battery, excess nutrients are absorbed from the free water and only released back to the plants when needed.
By powerfully promoting plant growth – because well-growing aquatic plants are the strongest enemies of algae.

Scaper's Soil has active ion exchange properties. This lowers the pH value and stabilizes it in the slightly acidic range (approx. pH 6.0-6.5). At the same time, it reduces the carbonate hardness - depending on the source water, to as low as 0 °d KH - and thus makes the water significantly softer. It also serves as a natural source of valuable humic and fulvic acids without coloring the water. In this way, Scaper's Soil creates water values ​​that many tropical aquarium plants and fish are used to in their natural habitats. Soft, slightly acidic water is ideal for most South American ornamental fish such as neon tetras, angelfish or discus, for example.

Despite the soft water, Scaper's Soil can also be used safely in combination with CO2 fertilization, as the pH value is stabilized by the soil. Scaper's Soil ensures crystal-clear water and healthy living conditions. The porous surface provides the ideal substrate for the settlement of important cleaning bacteria. The entire substrate thus becomes a giant bio-filter. It thus creates optimal conditions for effective, biological self-cleaning and thus for the best water quality. At the same time, the soil binds numerous pollutants directly from the water. The granulate is double-fired and is therefore water-stable in the long term.

ALSO FOR SHRIMPS
Its pH and KH lowering properties as well as its excellent filtering performance make Scaper's Soil the optimal substrate for keeping and breeding shrimp species that require soft, slightly acidic water, such as Crystal Red and Red Bee.

Scaper's Soil is ideal for use in combination with bottom filters, such as those often used for shrimp farming, thanks to its long-term stability. This means that the water is adjusted to the ideal values ​​even faster and the filter performance is increased. The loose but stable structure ensures that the substrate is optimally supplied with oxygen, so that no areas of rot can form. Its highly porous surface forms an excellent settlement substrate for important microorganisms that baby shrimps in particular need for their development. The color and pattern of the shrimps are shown off to their best advantage on Scaper's Soil. White, red and yellow shrimps in particular literally glow against the deep black background.

Info about Andosol:

Scaper's Soil has a particularly growth-promoting effect due to its content of natural Andosol. The term is made up of the Japanese an do, which means "black soil", and the Latin sol for "soil". Andosols develop primarily in mountainous, rainy regions on the basis of mineral-rich volcanic ash. The soils are characterized by a dark brown to pitch black color. They are particularly rich in vital nutrients, minerals and trace elements. At the same time, they have a high content of valuable humic and fulvic acids. Andosol soils are therefore extremely fertile and are highly valued in agriculture.