nano-head Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 Lf place I can buy some dry base rock. Lf for marco rock or something simillar. wheres the best place to buy rock???
Mstefa1 Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 Lf place I can buy some dry base rock. Lf for marco rock or something simillar. wheres the best place to buy rock??? I know where I can buy rock but you might live on the other side of the universe so maybe you want to post your location if your looking for a local place.
TeflonTomDosh Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 I buy mine at 22nd @ MLK. From these guys Pooky & RayRay.
louy99 Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 Buy real reef rock online. It's man made colored purple and gray so you don't have that ugly base rock look.
Spirofucci Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 I got mine from reefcleaners, very happy with it.
andrenym00 Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 I got mine from reefcleaners, very happy with it. South seas base rock. Just ordered 10 lbs. , really nice. http://www.caribsea.com/itempage_rock_southseasbaserock.htm
jedimasterben Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 South seas base rock. Just ordered 10 lbs. , really nice. http://www.caribsea.com/itempage_rock_southseasbaserock.htm The same as the stuff from Reefcleaners, but more expensive.
BulkRate Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 Don't go the Real Reef Rock route... just don't. A lesson I learned the hard way was that RRR's just not porous enough to serve as a good biofiltration media on its own...I still have a basket of Matrix tucked away inside my tank that I suspect is doing the heavy lifting a year later. Another tidbit pointed out less helpfully but still accurately was that you need to provide a small amount of ammonia (either by dosing pure ammonia to a low PPM concentration or the dead-shrimp method) during the cycling process to fuel the growth of nitrifying/denitrifying bacterial populations until you add livestock. Also, that purple dye they use (at least as of last year) fades to blue over time. It never looks "real" until actually covered by real coraline. You don't say what size your tank is, but aside from the smaller picos the most economical and ecologically friendly way to is to get inland quarried (marcorock/BRS) or synthetic aragocrete (like they make at garf.org) and then seed with a much smaller amount of cured live rock. If you're concerned about the additional time this might entail before you can add stuff, either endure endless "nothing good ever happens fast..." pontifications OR use one of the better rated jump-start inoculations to establish your biofilter.
nano-head Posted December 5, 2012 Author Posted December 5, 2012 my tank is a rsm 130 and im located in key largo fl
Mstefa1 Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 my tank is a rsm 130 and im located in key largo fl Nice tank! I went scuba diving in Key Largo last May. Lots of coral there!
nano-head Posted December 6, 2012 Author Posted December 6, 2012 thats great. maybe we could do a dive together one time
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