Mobile Bay Reef Keepers

would i have better luck buying dry rock and seeding it with a few pieces of live rock? From an expense point of view?

Buddy08 wrote:would i have better luck buying dry rock and seeding it with a few pieces of live rock? From an expense point of view?

Yes.

Buddy08 wrote:would i have better luck buying dry rock and seeding it with a few pieces of live rock? From an expense point of view?

Here is the place I suggested earlier in the thread: http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/store/pro ... i-dry-rock

Im not trying to argue this point to sell some live rock, but if you calculate the cost involved curing the dry rock, making up saltwater, doing the water changes involved in curing dry rock, buying coraline covered pieces of live rock seems the least expensive way to go especially if the live rock is cheap. $1-$1.50 more than buying dry base rock seems a less expensive route, not to mention you pick your own pieces, shapes,sizes. just saying....

Why would you go through all of that to cure dry rock? Rinse it a few times in RO water then put it in the tank just like you do with bags of dry sand. Put a few pieces of live rock in with it and let the thing go for at least a month like you are suppose to when you set up a tank. The only rock I ever cured was stuff I had dropped shipped from overseas from some on line places. That stuff was covered in all kinds of stuff and you had major die off. All I really did was put it in the tank with a skimmer and pull off anything that was dieing. You don't get live rock like that anymore unless you buy the aquaculture stuff out of tampa. That stuff weighs a ton though.

got the tank, liverock, and sand setup and running. Thanks to progressive marine for my lighting supplies, and tj at Innerarity Reefs in pensacola for my live rock and sand. Heres the tank as it stands.

looking great add some pick to the members secttion also!

where at?

Pics dont do the rock justice but its awesome rock way more purple than the pics show.

There is a a section called members tanks and bio under the general reef keeping

Buddy08 wrote:i have purchased a lot at progressive marine. Theyre rock ranged in price if i remember correctly but its still an average of 5$ a lb. I think theyre just about moved by now. Its in the blue roofed building behind checkers next to rite aid. My next off day, Im going to go talk to them and see what my options are. If not, it looks like ill be getting some used live rock from pcola. Is there anything wrong with that?

used live rock???

Buddy08 wrote:got the tank, liverock, and sand setup and running. Thanks to progressive marine for my lighting supplies, and tj at Innerarity Reefs in pensacola for my live rock and sand. Heres the tank as it stands.

this is niiiiiiiiiiiiiceeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!! .... cant wait to see it stocked