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I sent Seachem an E-mail about the copper in Flourite and this is what they had to say.

Flourite, like most naturally mined rocks, will contain traces of copper as copper is a naturally occurring trace mineral. The copper in this material is insoluble and will not go into solution so it will not ...

Thanks for the replies. I've sent an e-mail to Seachem and am waiting on there response. I did find that a few people here use it with no problems. I was just trying to make sure that is was absolutely safe. This will be a pretty big investment for me, and I don't want to make any foolish mistakes.

I've just set up a greenhouse and plan on growing my own plants. I was planning on using Flourite as a substrate and keeping shrimp in these tanks to keep algae at bay. After looking at the contents of flourite it contains 17mg/kg of copper. If I used 5kg of Flourite per 10gal. that would be about ...