Dennerle Scaper’s Soil

Scaper's Soil is an active substrate specially developed for aquariums. It creates the slightly acidic, soft water that most tropical animals and plants 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 essential minerals and trace elements that aquarium plants need on a daily basis. The irregularly shaped grains with a diameter of 1 to 4 mm give the soil a particularly natural appearance.

Its loose structure allows optimum soil circulation and plant roots can grow in easily. Scaper's Soil provides the perfect basis for healthy, vigorous plant growth and magnificent colors. Mosses also benefit from this and show it through compact growth and lush green leaves. The deep black coloration creates an intense, vibrant 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 - so the nutrients primarily benefit the plants, but not the algae.

The nutrient buffer function: like a battery, excess nutrients are absorbed from the open water and only released back to the plants when required.

Through the powerful promotion of plant growth - because well-growing aquatic plants are the strongest opponents of algae.

Scaper's Soil has active ion exchange properties. As a result, it 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 up to almost 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. Scaper's Soil thus creates water values that numerous tropical aquarium plants and fish are accustomed to in their natural habitats. Soft, slightly acidic water, for example, is ideal for most South American ornamental fish such as neon tetras, angelfish or discus.

Despite the soft water, Scaper's Soil is also safe to use 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 colonization of important cleaning bacteria. This turns the entire substrate into a giant bio-filter. It thus creates optimum conditions for effective, biological self-cleaning and therefore for the best water quality. At the same time, the soil binds numerous pollutants directly from the water. The granulate is double-fired and therefore also water-stable in the long term.

Also for shrimps

Its pH and KH-reducing properties and excellent filter performance make Scaper's Soil the ideal 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, which are often used for keeping shrimps, due to the long-term stability of the grains. The water is adjusted to the ideal values even faster and the filter performance is increased. Thanks to the loose but stable structure, the substrate is optimally supplied with oxygen so that no putrefaction foci can form. Its highly porous surface forms an excellent settlement substrate for important microorganisms, which baby shrimps in particular need for their development. The color and markings of shrimps are shown to their best advantage on Scaper's Soil. White, red or yellow shrimps in particular really shine against the deep black background.

Diameter of the soil: 1 - 4 mm