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11/08/2018, 08:05 AM | #31 |
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Tampa Bay SW rocks. Literally and figuratively, I guess. I blended mine with dry base rock and Gulf Liverock because their stuff sprouts macro like nobody's business, and the net result was pretty incredible. GLR doesn't look like anything special fresh out of the box but it added a really neat dimension with all the macro.
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Nothing wrong with Tampa bay either especially if you want less die off and better chance at sponges making it.
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Here is a crappy pic of some rock from Golfview that is in isolation for now. Been in there about a month.
Not a good picture because I need to clean the glass. I threw some dry rock in with it and it is leaching like crazy and causing a cyano bloom.. Some beautiful Algae and you can see a few sponges. you can see a bouldering coral in the back. That small leather was not from the shipment.
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11/10/2018, 07:41 AM | #34 |
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All my tanks (since I wised up) have been started with The Package from TBS.
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11/10/2018, 08:23 AM | #35 |
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Thank you @blackthunda77 for allowing me to hitchhike on your thread.
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I thought I was the only one that did that..... Heck I drove to Vermont the other day to check out a couple LFS's, of course just to window shop.... it's a 4 hour drive one way lol.
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11/10/2018, 11:32 PM | #37 |
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I certainly am glad I've kept all this incredible Fiji rock in the display and the refugium of my quarantine tank for the past 20 years. I was able to set up a new display with live rock and NO hitchhikers except 'pods and bristle worms. I don't even have coralline algae despite bright halides.
I bought several hundred pounds of this stuff off a dealer in Columbus, OH many years ago. He got it by going to Fiji with many tons of Sakrete and cinder blocks. The Fijians were going to use the coral rock for building material. He simply traded them on a 2 to 1 basis. Pure genius. He had enormous concrete vats full of live Fiji coral rock which was (and still is) the lightest, most porous live rock I've seen. My biggest regret is how much of this rock I gave to my clients. I could have sold it to LFSs and made a small fortune. |
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11/11/2018, 12:30 AM | #39 |
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I only buy rock from my LFS or locals so I can actually see what I'm getting and plan my scape
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Calling wet base rock "live rock" is dishonest IMO. Live rock has stuff growing on it - coralline algae, macroalgae, sponges - and stuff living inside it -- crabs, amphipods, worms. I have never found real live rock for sale at a LFS. Only wet base rock. |
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Yeah anymore I guess it's pretty difficult for the most part to find actual live rock in an lfs. Some of them will cycle dry Rock before they sell it. I guess in that case you could call it cured/cycled Base Rock. But yeah I agree calling that type of product live rock is a bit nefarious. I suppose some could argue that it is alive with bacterial LOL
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I remember many years ago when my lfs had live Fiji and Tonga in the store for sale. Sponges, Christmas Tree Worms, brittle Stars, various worms.
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