Dragon Stone

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I. Aesthetic Landscaping and Creating a Natural Artistic Conception
1. **Unique Texture and Color**
The surface of Green Dragon Stone is full of wrinkles, gullies, with gray - blue or gray - black textures. Some have white "patterns" (resembling small flower patterns, so it is also called "Small Flower Stone"). It has a cold and primitive texture, capable of simulating natural rock landscapes such as mountains, gorges, and stone forests, adding a natural and rustic charm to the fish tank.
2. **Flexible Landscaping Combinations**
It can be stacked alone to form "rockeries", or combined with aquatic plants and driftwood to create artistic conceptions like "mountain - water jungles" and "stone - beach streams". It is especially suitable for the landscaping needs of natural - style tanks such as natural - style tanks, South - American - style tanks, and tanks for cichlids from the three African Great Lakes.

 II. Regulating Water Quality to Suit Specific Fish
1. **Effect on Hard Water**
The main component of Green Dragon Stone is calcium carbonate. When soaked in water, it will slowly release minerals (such as calcium and magnesium ions), increasing the hardness (GH) and pH value of the water. It is suitable for fish that prefer a weakly alkaline and hard - water environment, such as:
 - Cichlids from the three African Great Lakes (such as those from Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika);
 - Some native fish (such as bitterlings, hillstream loaches, etc., which have requirements for water hardness).
2. **Precautions**
If keeping fish that prefer soft water (such as neon tetras, angelfish, etc.), use it with caution to avoid excessive water quality fluctuations.

 III. Providing Habitats and Breeding Grounds
1. Complex Structures for Hiding**
The gaps, holes, and rough surface of Green Dragon Stone can provide spaces for fish to avoid natural enemies and rest. It is especially suitable for relatively timid fish (such as gobies, killifish), reducing their stress response.
2. **Substrate for Breeding**
Some egg - laying fish (such as dwarf cichlids, cichlids from the three African Great Lakes) will lay eggs on the stone surface or in the stone crevices. Green Dragon Stone can serve as a natural breeding substrate, facilitating the hatching of fish offspring.

IV. Stabilizing the Fish Tank Ecosystem
1. **Attachment of Beneficial Bacteria**
The rough surface is an ideal attachment site for beneficial bacteria such as nitrifying bacteria, helping to build the biological filtration system of the fish tank, decomposing harmful substances in the water such as ammonia - nitrogen and nitrite, and maintaining stable water quality.
2. **Balancing the Ecosystem**
It forms a micro - ecosystem together with aquatic plants and algae. For example, a small amount of mosses, Anubias, etc. can grow in the stone crevices, or algae (such as brown algae, green algae) can attach to it, providing food for shrimps, snails, and other utility organisms, enhancing the biodiversity of the fish tank ecosystem.