Online live rock?

[muttley000]

It is OK to seed dead rock with a little bit of new, but to get maximim diversity and number of beneficial organisms, buying all live rock and curing it yourself is the best way to go. It is not the easiest or cheapest or the only way, but the best IMO.

 

[iFisch]

buying all live rock and curing it yourself is the best way to go. It is not the easiest or cheapest or the only way, but the best IMO.

This is very controversial and can often be very opinionated. Each way has it's pro's and con's. No way is right or wrong. Just like the controversy of MH or T5HO.


:beer:

 

[one4gatr]

:mixed:

Marco rock is the dead rock they have been selling for years. They call their live rock by another year and started selling it a year ago.



Dry i.e. dead rock will never become live rock. It makes a great structure to be colonized by Bactria to facilitate the nitrogen cycle just like bio balls, but it will never become live rock.

Live rock contains many burrowing organisms as stated above that dry i.e. dead rock will never have even if it is seeded with live rock.

This is about to get interesting,,,

 

[DetroitCrow]

:mixed:

This is about to get interesting,,,

Yeah and thats all I wanted to know was if someone bought live rock from these guys... :fish1:

 

[Aristarchus]

Mine shipped out today, shouldn't be long until it arrives

 

[RealReef7]

Honestly if I had to do it all over again I would use dead rock and seed it. So much cheaper and at the end you cant tell the difference.

 

[Raggamuffin]

just got my first part of the package from tampa bay saltwater, it may not have had all the coralline that the stuff from F&S had but it was covered and I mean COVERED in life, way to much to list off the top of my head but I did post a bit down in thier section. I am extremely pleased with what I got.

 

[Jeck]

Marco rock is the dead rock they have been selling for years. They call their live rock by another year and started selling it a year ago.



Dry i.e. dead rock will never become live rock. It makes a great structure to be colonized by Bactria to facilitate the nitrogen cycle just like bio balls, but it will never become live rock.

Live rock contains many burrowing organisms as stated above that dry i.e. dead rock will never have even if it is seeded with live rock.

This is so totally untrue what are you even talking about. My mom placed my live rock in the garden for 5 years while I was in the navy and now that rock is all fully covered in purple corraline algae and is just as live as any other rock in my tank.

 

[WI reefer55]

Mine shipped out today, shouldn't be long until it arrives

Lets see the candy when it arrives!

 

[WI reefer55]

This is so totally untrue what are you even talking about. My mom placed my live rock in the garden for 5 years while I was in the navy and now that rock is all fully covered in purple corraline algae and is just as live as any other rock in my tank.

agree what he said is false!


dry rock will become live over time

 

[DetroitCrow]

Mine shipped out today, shouldn't be long until it arrives

My 90 pounds was shipped out today also!

 

[Mish1]

I got my live rock from Tampa Bay Saltwater.

IMO you're not going to find another type of rock out there for sale that has more life on it than TBS rock.

The draw back though to all of that life is the bad hitch hikers. I have already gotten rid of 4 mantis shrimp and still have at least one in my tank. In the end it was worth it since my tank is 3 months old and already teaming with life.

 

[krowleey]

Marco rock is the dead rock they have been selling for years. They call their live rock by another year and started selling it a year ago.



Dry i.e. dead rock will never become live rock. It makes a great structure to be colonized by Bactria to facilitate the nitrogen cycle just like bio balls, but it will never become live rock.

Live rock contains many burrowing organisms as stated above that dry i.e. dead rock will never have even if it is seeded with live rock.

bad and very false advice here folks.

 

[Aristarchus]

Sooo if dead rock can't become live.. how are they planting it in the ocean and selling it to us as live rock? Does this mean I just bought 65 lbs. of dead rock from Marco Rocks even though they advertise it as live rock? These online stores are a bunch of con artists in that case.

/sarcasm off

Anyhow, my rock arrives on the 17th(Saturday). I'm pretty damn anxious.

My apologies for the deviation from the threads original topic!

 

[WI reefer55]

My 90 pounds was shipped out today also!

please post pics

 

[rizakaniza]

Sea Life Inc is the best LR I have ever seen. Came completely covered in life and plenty of hitchhikers. Will only cost you approx $5/lb shipped. They can cure it for you free of charge. Here are some pics:

My rocks are teeming with Halimeda and mermaids fans, sponges, orange tunicates, sea squirts, and all sorts of new life that I discover practically each day.

 

[rizakaniza]

BTW the rock also came with the following hitchhikers: 1 snail, 2 pencil urchins, 1 pistol shrimp.

 

[cas]

This is so totally untrue what are you even talking about. My mom placed my live rock in the garden for 5 years while I was in the navy and now that rock is all fully covered in purple corraline algae and is just as live as any other rock in my tank.

What you have is the structure for Bactria to colonize on i.e.
Bio Balls. It is not live rock since it is not populated with spaghetti worms and other beneficial organisms that make it true live rock.

agree what he said is false


dry rock will become live over time

Please see above. Dry rock will never become live rock.

bad and very false advice here folks.

Sooo if dead rock can't become live.. how are they planting it in the ocean and selling it to us as live rock? Does this mean I just bought 65 lbs. of dead rock from Marco Rocks even though they advertise it as live rock? These online stores are a bunch of con artists in that case.

/sarcasm off

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In the ocean dead rock can overtime become populated with the beneficial organisms and become live rock. There is not a large enough population of these organisms multiplying to colonize other rocks in our aquariums. If you purchased dry rock you purchased dead rock and nothing more. If the company let it sit in the ocean for over a year and then harvested it you purchased aqua cultured live rock that has some additional beneficial organisms than if you had purchased dry rock.

 

[Toddrtrex]

This is so totally untrue what are you even talking about. My mom placed my live rock in the garden for 5 years while I was in the navy and now that rock is all fully covered in purple corraline algae and is just as live as any other rock in my tank.

There is more to live rock then just coraline algae.

I got most of my live rock from LA, and it was (( and still is )) full of little feather dusters, corals, and numerous other little creatures that wouldn't be there if I used all dry rock.

 

[Moebuis]

My current tank was made with 30/70 LR from a previous smaller aquarium I had and dry rock that was purchased for the upgrade. A year later, I couldn't tell you which is which. I have coraline, featherdusters, rock anemones, sponges, mushrooms, micro stars, and pods that have migrated to the dry rock. I would now consider every rock in my tank to now be live rock. I have feather dusters on the glass of my sump but I don't consider it live glass. Most of the cool hitchhikers I've gotten over the years have been from the rubble or plugs that the corals I bought were mounted to.