Best place to buy live rock now a days?

I live about an hour south of Tampa. And I've been wondering if it could be shipped by ground since it's only an hour drive. And if so how expensive it would be for shipping. I have looked at their website but I was not really able to tell how much shipping would cost. I guess my best bet would need to contact them by phone to find out. I have also considered just driving up there to pick it up. I'm only looking for about 20lb probably, for a 30 gallon bow front.

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pshootr said:
I live about an hour south of Tampa. And I've been wondering if it could be shipped by ground since it's only an hour drive. And if so how expensive it would be for shipping. I have looked at their website but I was not really able to tell how much shipping would cost. I guess my best bet would need to contact them by phone to find out. I have also considered just driving up there to pick it up. I'm only looking for about 20lb probably, for a 30 gallon bow front.

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Road trip!

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pshootr said:
Yes, actually it wouldn't be a bad idea to go that route period because then I could hit some fish stores up there before I pick up the Rock. [emoji6]

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I love it when we plan our road trip routes based on where the lfs's are. Lol

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pshootr said:
I live about an hour south of Tampa. And I've been wondering if it could be shipped by ground since it's only an hour drive. And if so how expensive it would be for shipping. I have looked at their website but I was not really able to tell how much shipping would cost. I guess my best bet would need to contact them by phone to find out. I have also considered just driving up there to pick it up. I'm only looking for about 20lb probably, for a 30 gallon bow front.

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Ask [MENTION=6809]liverock[/MENTION] to stop by. Never hurts to ask.
 
pshootr said:
I live about an hour south of Tampa. And I've been wondering if it could be shipped by ground since it's only an hour drive. And if so how expensive it would be for shipping. I have looked at their website but I was not really able to tell how much shipping would cost. I guess my best bet would need to contact them by phone to find out. I have also considered just driving up there to pick it up. I'm only looking for about 20lb probably, for a 30 gallon bow front.

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Within Florida fed ex ground works great as it is overnight service at about .50 a pound...!!:beer:
 
liverock said:
Within Florida fed ex ground works great as it is overnight service at about .50 a pound...!![emoji481]
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Wow, that is really good! Thank you very much for getting in touch so quickly. [emoji106]

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Tampa Bay SW rocks. Literally and figuratively, I guess. I blended mine with dry base rock and Gulf Liverock because their stuff sprouts macro like nobody's business, and the net result was pretty incredible. GLR doesn't look like anything special fresh out of the box but it added a really neat dimension with all the macro.
 
NikonN8 said:
Tampa Bay SW rocks. Literally and figuratively, I guess. I blended mine with dry base rock and Gulf Liverock because their stuff sprouts macro like nobody's business, and the net result was pretty incredible. GLR doesn't look like anything special fresh out of the box but it added a really neat dimension with all the macro.
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Yea gGulfviews rocks have some of the coolest macros. I have some right now in a vat that grew sargassum almost a foot long with some of the coolest red macro algae. All the Halimeda that is starting to come out too.. Lots of cool sponges. Mine had a few corals, nothing fancy though with corals.

Nothing wrong with Tampa bay either especially if you want less die off and better chance at sponges making it.
 
Here is a crappy pic of some rock from Golfview that is in isolation for now. Been in there about a month.
Not a good picture because I need to clean the glass. I threw some dry rock in with it and it is leaching like crazy and causing a cyano bloom..

Some beautiful Algae and you can see a few sponges.
you can see a bouldering coral in the back.
That small leather was not from the shipment.

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Thank you [MENTION=47666]blackthunda77[/MENTION] for allowing me to hitchhike on your thread. [emoji106]

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blackthunda77 said:
I love it when we plan our road trip routes based on where the lfs's are. Lol

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I thought I was the only one that did that..... Heck I drove to Vermont the other day to check out a couple LFS's, of course just to window shop.... it's a 4 hour drive one way lol.
 
I certainly am glad I've kept all this incredible Fiji rock in the display and the refugium of my quarantine tank for the past 20 years. I was able to set up a new display with live rock and NO hitchhikers except 'pods and bristle worms. I don't even have coralline algae despite bright halides.

I bought several hundred pounds of this stuff off a dealer in Columbus, OH many years ago.

He got it by going to Fiji with many tons of Sakrete and cinder blocks. The Fijians were going to use the coral rock for building material. He simply traded them on a 2 to 1 basis.

Pure genius. He had enormous concrete vats full of live Fiji coral rock which was (and still is) the lightest, most porous live rock I've seen.

My biggest regret is how much of this rock I gave to my clients. I could have sold it to LFSs and made a small fortune.
 
homer1475 said:
I thought I was the only one that did that..... Heck I drove to Vermont the other day to check out a couple LFS's, of course just to window shop.... it's a 4 hour drive one way lol.
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I am a little less than 2 hours away from World Wide Corals [emoji41]

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Joe0813 said:
I only buy rock from my LFS or locals so I can actually see what I'm getting and plan my scape
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I would like to be able to pick the sizes and shapes that I want as well. But local fish stores usually do not have high quality live rock. If I order high quality live rock I get and almost instant cycle. And there is lots of cool stuff to look at. You can basically start stalking your tank almost immediately.

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