reefer2006
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Has anyone out there ever bought live rock from Tampa Bay Saltwater? How was the rock when you received it?
Tampa Bay Live Rock ???
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Grand Wazoo
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Excellent rock. Best I've ever seen. Lots of life. Shipped in water.
reefer2006
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Is thsi the coaral rock or the deco rock. It does look great!!!!
Grand Wazoo
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Everything you see there was on the rock from the first 20lbs they gave me--they ship the second 20lbs of deco rock in the second shipment after your tank cycles--I have a 20g tank cycling with the rock you see in the picture right now...
Yes--that is coral from the first 20lbs.
Richard is a good guy too!!!
I'd buy again and recommend them to anybody.
Yes--that is coral from the first 20lbs.
Richard is a good guy too!!!
I'd buy again and recommend them to anybody.
UnderwaterExotic
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I have around 800lbs of tampa bay live rock! Awesome Rock! Just be careful of hitchhikers. i pulled around 10 manitis shirmp out of mine, but got an awesome blue and red pistol in it too!
Fountainhead
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See this thread (about 12 posts in) for pictures of the first half of my TBS shipment. This was the "base" half. The second half had even more life.
Rock Thread
Rock Thread
Tampa Bay Saltwater
Tampa Bay Saltwater
If you have crappy lights and no skimmer then no matter what you buy.............it will DIE! Richard has the most awesome rock I've seen in 20 years. I've bought that Tonga rock and actually have a tank FULL of Fiji rock. All of this rock was shipped to me wrapped in newspaper for about $150 for 40lb.s and the only thing alive on the rock was the coralline algea. GIVE ME A BREAK!!! I remember when live rock was actually LIVE! If you want to see LIVE ROCK order from Tampa Bay Saltwater. Enough said!
Tampa Bay Saltwater
If you have crappy lights and no skimmer then no matter what you buy.............it will DIE! Richard has the most awesome rock I've seen in 20 years. I've bought that Tonga rock and actually have a tank FULL of Fiji rock. All of this rock was shipped to me wrapped in newspaper for about $150 for 40lb.s and the only thing alive on the rock was the coralline algea. GIVE ME A BREAK!!! I remember when live rock was actually LIVE! If you want to see LIVE ROCK order from Tampa Bay Saltwater. Enough said!
jman77
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Dude ...chill. Your typing like your strung out on something.
I purchased his rock about 11 years ago when i setup my first reef tank a 75 gallon tank. I had dual 175 w MH german 10k's and dual super actinic powered my an Icecap and wave timmer with 4 Rio's, protein skimmer. TBS was the place alot of people from the CompuServe forum "Fishnet" were getting their rock from. I was a part of this forum and decieded to get his rock as well. His rock is full of life, no doubt about that.
You can skim and shoot as much light into the tank and alot of the stuff will die over time.... why because alot of the life is filter feeding and starves over time.
I buy rock as a base for my corals. As long as it has some interesting shapes and some coralline on it I'm happy. The TBS rock is really heavy and the shapes are not appealing to me. If your looking for life...it has alot of it. I look for shapes with some life.
I purchased his rock about 11 years ago when i setup my first reef tank a 75 gallon tank. I had dual 175 w MH german 10k's and dual super actinic powered my an Icecap and wave timmer with 4 Rio's, protein skimmer. TBS was the place alot of people from the CompuServe forum "Fishnet" were getting their rock from. I was a part of this forum and decieded to get his rock as well. His rock is full of life, no doubt about that.
You can skim and shoot as much light into the tank and alot of the stuff will die over time.... why because alot of the life is filter feeding and starves over time.
I buy rock as a base for my corals. As long as it has some interesting shapes and some coralline on it I'm happy. The TBS rock is really heavy and the shapes are not appealing to me. If your looking for life...it has alot of it. I look for shapes with some life.
jman77
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Here is another thread talking about TBS
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=798494
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=798494
reefrick.M
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Yup that's what LR used to look like !!! I had a reef tank back in the late 80's early 90's and that's what I would see out there.
I bought tb rock. Lots of live, much of it undesirable IMO. It took me 2 years to get all the mantis, 7 of them. There was also an assortment of crabs. Some hairy, some with black tipped claws, and some I think where probably okay. When I went bb I caught all I could. I still have a few hairy ones but they don't seem to be causing any problems other than I seem to need a lot of snails
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Fountainhead
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Yeah, you do have to be prepared for the extras when you got the TBS route. I only had 2 mantis (200 lbs of rock) but I must have had a dozen of those gorilla crabs...the hairy ones with the black tipped claws. For kicks, here's a portrait of one shortly after his capture:
<img src="http://www.schannen.com/darkside/crab.jpg">
They were extraordinarily difficult to catch, and it took a good six months to get them all.
On the other hand, I must have gotten a dozen very cool porcelain crabs, most of which are still with me after almost two years.
TBS is a mixed bag, for sure. You can get some nice rock, but there certainly is a little more work involved with clearing the pests.
Grand Wazoo
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I think that Gorilla is so cute.
I wish I had gotten one.
:thumbsup:
I wish I had gotten one.
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I've never gotten gorilla crabs but I did get a mantis shrimp with my rock. Tried one of those traps but it didn't work, and I finally caught him by turning off the lights in the tank and putting a small tidbit of cocktail shrimp in a small brine shrimp net and lowering it into the tank in the general vicinity of the shrimp and just waiting. Well after about a minute or so the mantis came charging out of his crevice and right into the net to grab the piece of shrimp, and I just quickly lifted the net out of the water......and that was that. He was about a 2 incher or so, and a pale green in color.
