i just picked up 30 pounds of very amazing gulf live rock,the stuff is shipped out of water 3 days to your door,the life on the rock that survived and came back was amazing,i have star corals,cup corals or flower corals,colorfull orange encrusting sponge,halimeada macro and other green plants,amazing purple pink and red and maroon coraline algae,starfish too,also had feather dusters,all this for about $180.00 its great liverock,there is not much of an amonia spike either.the corals survived the cycle and are now thriving on the liverock.i got it on ebay!