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03-07-2005, 09:15 PM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: NC
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|  live rock necessary? Is live rock absolutely necesssary? Will live sand be enough if I add a couple of pounds of live rock once a month due to lack of money? Maybe about 25 lbs of live sand for my 20 gallon?
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03-07-2005, 09:41 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Michigan
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| well, I personally believe live rock is necessary to a healthy tank. I don't believe live sand will be enough. Personally I would save up for a while and buy all the live rock at once. If you get a little at a time you have the risk of getting some uncured stuff that will mess with your tank.
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03-07-2005, 10:10 PM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Jan 2005
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| that should be alright, the thing with buying it all once is that you dont run the risk of restarting the cycle by buying an uncycled peice. But you should be alright, no garantee's. FYI if you dont quite understand the rock and cycle process, the peices of rock that you dont want, or the "uncured" peices are rocks that have been allowed NO time to overcome the die off that would have occured during shipping, moving, etc. Therefore starting your tank cycle over. |
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03-07-2005, 10:12 PM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: NC
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| Well lcukily I have some fish stores about 15 minutes away that carry a lot of diffent kinds of live rock and coral. So I don't have to ship. Only live sand.
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03-08-2005, 12:57 AM
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| you don't really need live sand so you can save money there...as far as the live rock, if you are patient and dont add any animals until you have all the rock you can take as much time as you want...10# now and 10# next month isn't too bad a wait |
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03-08-2005, 06:59 AM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: NC
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| So I can just buy regular sand from home depot? Do theys ell in any bags like 20 lbs? or do you have to buy 50 lbs?
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03-08-2005, 07:07 AM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: NC
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| Is this a good price? my LFS sells it at 5.99 or 6.99 a lb so it would be cheaper to buy it off this site for a 25lb bag and free shipping http://www.aquacon.com/liverock2.html FIJI ULTRA PREMIUM LIVE ROCK Should I get samll pieces for my 20 gallon? Or is there a better kind oyu see? Sorry I don't know much about the different kinds of live rock. If I get 1 piece of coral how long should I wait to put that in the tank?
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03-08-2005, 06:42 PM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: NC
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| That's what I was thinking. I think i will pick about 15 lbs first then wait and get the additional 5.
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