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 Topic: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
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| Andy Love Replies: 35 Views: 88539 |
 Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: May 11, 2015 09:10 Subject: Re: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
| Thank you, Pete, for your considered reply. I understand your stance with respect to the status quo and/or your knowledge-peers ; nevertheless I cannot at this time bring myself to accept it. The poss ... | |
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| Andy Love Replies: 35 Views: 88539 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: May 10, 2015 09:39 Subject: Re: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
| I'm not sure why you're still researching this now that you got test results back. Twice. Saying the same thing.
I am continuing to pursue this matter principally because what I'm being told by m ... |
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| Topic: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
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| Andy Love Replies: 35 Views: 88539 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: May 10, 2015 09:34 Subject: Re: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
| ...If you get a shortwave UV light, ... Wear goggles and gloves, because SW UV can rapidly cause sunburn.
Thank you, Alfredo. I feel somewhat chuffed because I was (more by luck than by good judg ... |
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| Andy Love Replies: 35 Views: 88539 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: May 10, 2015 06:32 Subject: Re: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
| I'll take that as a 'no', then?
I did have a bash at this, using the resources at my disposal. My most successful effort (not that that is saying much!) was the construction of a light box into whi ... |
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| Andy Love Replies: 35 Views: 88539 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Apr 29, 2015 08:25 Subject: Re: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
| Hi Everyone
I'm still making progress, albeit rather slowly. Since many of the photographs that I need to illustrate my story don't 'fit' here, I'm collating them on the fishkeeping forum which I ... |
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| Topic: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
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| Andy Love Replies: 35 Views: 88539 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Apr 10, 2015 06:22 Subject: Re: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
| I'm still here and still busy gathering data for you to evaluate.
I contacted a range of lab services here in the UK that purported to offer XRD. One or two of them in fact don't (despite what Goo ... |
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| Andy Love Replies: 35 Views: 88539 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Mar 25, 2015 09:16 Subject: Re: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
| Just popping in to assure you all that I haven't abandoned you!
I'm awaiting replies to e-mails that just may shed some further light. Amongst that burst of communications, I made enquiries about ... |
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| Topic: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
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| Andy Love Replies: 35 Views: 88539 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Mar 20, 2015 12:17 Subject: Re: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
| With Peter champing at the bit for news of density etc., I'd better employ a second typing finger ...
When a crystals-plus-gravel mix is swirled in or dropped through water, both elements appear to ... |
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| Topic: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
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| Andy Love Replies: 35 Views: 88539 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Mar 20, 2015 11:52 Subject: Re: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
| How about my question about the density of the material--does it seem more or less the same weight as the gravel particles? Sink just as fast when dropped into water?
I'm getting there - honest! I ... |
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| Topic: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
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| Andy Love Replies: 35 Views: 88539 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Mar 20, 2015 11:51 Subject: Re: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
| Alfredo suggested (thank you) that they could be grains of substrate coated with black organic material originating in the anaerobic depths of the aquarium...
The sand layer was around 7cms deep a ... |
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| Andy Love Replies: 35 Views: 88539 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Mar 20, 2015 11:27 Subject: Re: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
| Actually (DJ and Kushmeja) mica was my very first thought when I encountered these crystals. In 1970 I had an all-too-brief brush with a Geology degree (it was going relatively OK until X-Ray Crystal ... | |
| Topic: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
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| Andy Love Replies: 35 Views: 88539 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Mar 20, 2015 11:05 Subject: Re: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
| Thank you all muchly for your interest and replies thus far. I have been beavering away in reflection of your suggestions and guidance and, as a result, have more to add.
I will do so in a sequenc ... |
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| Andy Love Replies: 35 Views: 88539 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Mar 19, 2015 08:39 Subject: Mysterious Black Crystals (Something Fishy!) |
| Greetings Everyone
This is possibly a highly-unusual topic for this forum, in that it involves an unknown mineral that was not dug out of the ground on dry land! I'm attempting to discover somethin ... |
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