Hey guys,
I've seen that most tumbling media appears to be ground/crushed corn cob or walnut shell.
Has anyone ever tried polenta as tumbling media?

I ask as it looks to be small, hard and pretty cheap.

Opinions?

Thanks.
Matt

You are talking a soft media. Clever thought. But unless you are adding roast veggie's, cream or stock, and some Romano. I would steer clear! I was and still am an Executive chef in my life. jp

I agree it'd be soft. Petsmart or other pet shops have large cheap bags of crushed walnut shell thatare probably cheaper by the size.

I just noticed you are in Australia. I'm not sure what your large pet shop chains are. Here walnut shell is pretty cheap as bird cage litter.

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Originally posted by Sam:
I just noticed you are in Australia. I'm not sure what your large pet shop chains are. Here walnut shell is pretty cheap as bird cage litter.

$30Aus for 4.5 kilos of walnut shell or $17Aus for polenta. That's why the idea.

Thanks guys. I've got some walnut shell so i'll go that first.
Cheers.

Try broken rice. Works great.

If you add chese you will get cheese grits. Works for me.
Pete

I tried the rice and it would not work for me. I buy the pet smart walnut.

Rice, polenta, all too soft IMO. Check your local pet stores or a shop that does bead blasting or sand blasting. You can often get 25# bags of organic media for very cheap prices.

Any kind of UNPROCESSED small grain (rice, wheat, sorghum, etc) works okay. Processed rice acutally works but leaves a coat of white starchy material on the cases. Haven't tried any, but my guess is that Guar would do a great job.