Best place to buy live rock now a days?

[pshootr]

Stocking*

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[pshootr]

I only buy rock from my LFS or locals so I can actually see what I'm getting and plan my scape

There are pros and cons to each approach

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[EMeyer]

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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Yeah, every LFS I've visited has had rock that honestly looked like they took dry base rock and left it in the tank for a few weeks. Of course if people want to start a tank that way, thats totally fine, but just buy the dry rock yourself!

Calling wet base rock "live rock" is dishonest IMO. Live rock has stuff growing on it - coralline algae, macroalgae, sponges - and stuff living inside it -- crabs, amphipods, worms. I have never found real live rock for sale at a LFS. Only wet base rock.

 

[pshootr]

Yeah anymore I guess it's pretty difficult for the most part to find actual live rock in an lfs. Some of them will cycle dry Rock before they sell it. I guess in that case you could call it cured/cycled Base Rock. But yeah I agree calling that type of product live rock is a bit nefarious. I suppose some could argue that it is alive with bacterial LOL

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[pshootr]

I remember many years ago when my lfs had live Fiji and Tonga in the store for sale. Sponges, Christmas Tree Worms, brittle Stars, various worms.

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[EMeyer]

Yeah anymore I guess it's pretty difficult for the most part to find actual live rock in an lfs. Some of them will cycle dry Rock before they sell it. I guess in that case you could call it cured/cycled Base Rock. But yeah I agree calling that type of product live rock is a bit nefarious. I suppose some could argue that it is alive with bacterial LOL

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Yeah, thats the argument they make.

Of course, by the same argument, the door knob on the LFS door is a Live Door Knob and the dollar bill in your wallet is a Live Dollar Bill

 

[pshootr]

Yeah, thats the argument they make.

Of course, by the same argument, the door knob on the LFS door is a Live Door Knob and the dollar bill in your wallet is a Live Dollar Bill

LMAO, this is very true! [emoji16]

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