rePotme Hydro LECA

[Chlorophile]

I ordered LECA from rePotme and just got it today. Based on the photograph of the media and the description, I was expecting roughly gravel shaped pellets. The media I got is almost perfectly spherical and has a mix of quite large spheres and smaller ones. I emailed them to see if maybe there was a mistake.

I watched the AOS webinar recording about S/H done by Ray and also have been checking out his website and what I understood from it is that the media should be uneven in shape. Perfectly round LECA can cause problems.

My questions are, has anyone used the LECA from rePotme and does it work well, and is it really bad to use spherical media? If so, where can I find the more gravel shaped LECA?