Synthetic Live Rock ????

[wmhcpa]

Anyone with any experience with "new" Synthetic Live Rock? I am told that it does not have to cure so it would allow me to add the rock to my current fish only system without hurting the fish. My goal is to change from a total fish only system to a FOWLR then progress later to a reef tank. This is a 125 gal tank.

 

[Avi]

Synthetic live rock? Do you have a link for something like that? I am cynical.

 

[I am a giraffe]

Depends on what exactly you're talking about. If it's the rock in the DIY forum then no - they have to cure for quite a while to avoid phosphate issues.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9518676#post9518676 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Avi
Synthetic live rock? Do you have a link for something like that? I am cynical.

Avi, look in the DIY forum for something like "the ultimate diy live rocks" or something along the lines of that; the first few pages aren't that great, but they get progressively better. Some pretty awsome stuff has been made. This guy south of Houston makes the most awsome live rock I've ever seen, if he wasn't so far away I'd have driven down there to see him.

 

[Avi]

Aaah...Thanks...I guess the word "synthetic" is what threw me. DIY live rock is something else but I agree, that's what it must be...Thanks again.

 

[wmhcpa]

As soon as I find more information or a web site for this I will post. It was suggested by a gentleman that services and maintains many systems but is wanting me to be his first to use this type of rock.

 

[Ryan009]

While I don't have personal experience with it, I have heard of it or similar items.

The stuff that my LFS is going to be getting in is the normal volcanic rock or man made rock that has been set out on a reef for a minimum of 3 years - basically creating their own supply or live rock.

I would be very skeptical about a claim of it not needing to cure. "Live" rock is "Live" rock and there will be die-off from harvesting and shipping regardless of it is natrual live rock or created live rock.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9518706#post9518706 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by I am a giraffe
Depends on what exactly you're talking about. If it's the rock in the DIY forum then no - they have to cure for quite a while to avoid phosphate issues.



Avi, look in the DIY forum for something like "the ultimate diy live rocks" or something along the lines of that; the first few pages aren't that great, but they get progressively better. Some pretty awsome stuff has been made. This guy south of Houston makes the most awsome live rock I've ever seen, if he wasn't so far away I'd have driven down there to see him.

That would be my thread Ultimate DIY Rocks. There are 77 pages, but it's well worth reading into.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9523070#post9523070 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by wmhcpa
As soon as I find more information or a web site for this I will post. It was suggested by a gentleman that services and maintains many systems but is wanting me to be his first to use this type of rock.

PM me the who/what is suggesting this and I can probably tell you about it. I'm from Stillwater, OK.

 

[sunfish11]

Depends on what exactly you're talking about. If it's the rock in the DIY forum then no - they have to cure for quite a while to avoid phosphate issues.

I am pretty sure you mean PH issues...

There are also other synthetics base rocks out there but they wont become live until they are added to the tank.