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Permalink Reply by jason on July 6, 2012 at 8:33am

I was hoping someone would answer you cause I live in N. Carolina, and we got red clay too.

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Permalink Reply by James Vincent Jr on July 6, 2012 at 11:14am

I know rite, not testing many replies on any of my questions.

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Permalink Reply by James Vincent Jr on July 6, 2012 at 11:15am

Getting not testing, lol.

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Permalink Reply by Peter on July 6, 2012 at 4:25pm

Short answer is Yes u can 

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Permalink Reply by seth roach on July 6, 2012 at 9:16pm

yeah of course you can...ive used clay from a local creek with no negative side affects. i would however dry it all the way out and bake it a little or something to get rid of any critters or funky molds....I went to school for pottery so i know far too much about clay but a short bit of useful to aqua-keepers would be that the darker the clay the more metal content (iron, manganese etc.) of course its tiny tiny amounts so there's very slim chance of it having any excessively negative effects in a fish tank. itll just give your plants an easy access to your trace elements so if you forget a fert dose every once in a while itll have somewhere else to get it... And if your here in the US pretty much all clay even the lighter types will have a pretty good amount of iron in it really the only area that would actually be getting real low in iron would be in georgia and flordia but it would be very white but even that would give you at least some trace titanium dioxide and a smidgen of iron...but yeah use the clay its free!! 

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Permalink Reply by Robert Jango on July 9, 2012 at 12:17am

I've got orange clay here in Massachusetts just below the topsoil and put a thin layer in my tank yesterday. I've been mixing the clay with black topsoil (earthworm droppings) in my potted pond plants with great results.

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