LF: Rubble for coralline seed in SF

[sfdan]

Anybody in SF have a piece of rubble (or anything) encrusted with coralline as a seed for my new tank full of dry rock? Happy to pay a few bucks for it, don't need anything than an inch or two if it has coralline on it. Coming from a clean tank would be best but I'm going to dip it anyways.

Drove to hayward yesterday and went to aquatic collection/ultimate aquarium and apparently uncured live rock isn't a thing people sell anymore :sad2:

 

[zeroinverse]

Just go to someone's house and scrape some coralline algae off the corners of their tank. And suck up the coralline flakes.

 

[sfdan]

I'd be happy for some coralline flakes just the same

 

[sfdan]

Bump. Or anybody know of an LFS that sells non-farmed live rock? That would also do the trick.

 

[zeroinverse]

I recall years back when I was re-seeding my tank, I went out to All About Fish. They had these flat frag tanks with excessive coralline algae growth on the acrylic. I asked them to scrape off some of the encrusted coralline algae. They came off in these flat sheets. I went home and crushed it all up and poured it into my tank.

I would offer but I used new rock 2 months back and purple corralline algae only recently started to show up.

 

[DivingTheWorld]

I got mine from Aquatic Collection. I just asked them for some Coraline and they gave me a huge chunk from one of their coral bins. Their bins are lined with the stuff so I think they're happy to oblige. You don't need a rock, just a hunk of Coraline itself. It probably helps if you're buying something, I think I was buying a fish that day. The people at Aquatic Collection are super helpful and they may just not have realized you were trying to seed Coraline.

 

[blacktangs]

I have seeded my tank multiple times by going to a lfs and asking them for some rubble/small rocks. you can even purchase some products or fish food and then ask them to help seed your tank. most lfs are nice enough to do this to get another customer in the hobby.

 

[galoot]

I have plenty of coraline seed material if you need some. Just let me know

 

[iphone]

I remember seeing online that they sell tiles covered in coralline labeled "coralline seeder" or something like that.
Should check out Google maybe.