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09-13-2005, 03:35 PM
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| | Super Fish
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,815
| its possible, but it will be a huge hassel, will hinder the health and enviorment of your fish, and will not give you a realistic looking aquarium. If its at all possible to get live rock, GET IT!!!
__________________ #27 Darrent Williams
#29 Damien Nash Quote: |
Originally Posted by aresgod it is still a know fact that clowns, anthias, and various other fish are hermaphroditic(sp?) so just think about what would have happened to nemo...yes thats right, his dad would turn into a female, then he and nemo would mate...far from disney right? or is it......? | |
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01-19-2006, 10:22 PM
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| | Teenie Weenie Fish
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Connecticut (in the sticks)
Posts: 16
| Live Rock: The Foundation of a Healthy Marine Aquarium OK. I finally have now one hundred and eighty pounds of one-and-a-half to two week old cured Fiji live rock in my new aquarium. It was $4.25 per pound (reg $4.99-6.99), so it was a rather large purchase.
Lights are off for now and all smells good. Seems that, since I bought so much from the store, they had to dig into a reef tank to get enough, giving me some extras, like a few small anemones, snails, crabs, plants and the like. Some is in the sump but most is in the tank. Quite a lot.
I have one question. Good or bad: I have had zero foam in the cup of my EV120 skimmer, and it is set up according to the directions? It makes a swirl like mad and bubbles which break instantly, but no brown foam. Is that just because it is too early to tell? Will the live rock increase proteins soon? Should I not worry and suspect that the tank is just very underpopulated?
Thanks, Experts. I love the new tank.
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02-02-2006, 03:00 AM
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| | Teenie Weenie Fish
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Well, in the summer I live in Omaha NE, during the rest of the year I live in College Station, TX
Posts: 10
| yeah, wait on the protein skimmer, believe me, it'll come...about the whole seeding live rock, I read an article one time, of course NOW i can't find it, but some guy actually took concrete and got that to seed, it took awhile, but I guess anything is possible...oh p.s. I love Fiji live rock, it's a great base to a SW system!
__________________ 20 gallon: red-tailed shark, tetras-kinda a wimpy tank for a zookeeper...
In my defense the avatar is a picture of one of the systems I help maintain...I love that exhibit. 8 Sandbar sharks, 3 sandtigers, 5 zebra sharks, 3 whitetip, 5 wobbies, lots of stingrays, 1 green sea turtle, 1 loggerhead turtle...*sigh* |
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02-06-2006, 01:28 PM
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| | Little Fish
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany
Posts: 154
| Nice sticky helped me pick live rock for a good base of cycling my tank
__________________ Air Traffic Controller Fish Keep me Calm
29G FreshWater 1 Red betta, 3 Black mollies, 3 cory, 7 Tiger fish, Red Wag Plattie & 6 Yellow Patties
64g Saltwater tank Pair of Tomato Clowns, 1 Yellow Tang, 1 Royal Gramma, 5 Orange Lyretail Anthias, 1 Cleaner Shrimp, and 1 Turbo Snail with LR =) |
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09-02-2006, 01:56 PM
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| | Super Fish
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,815
| I just wanted to bump something on this thread in the terms of aquascaping.
I was told a while back that larger porouse peices of live rock are the way to go over smaller peices for aquascaping and I just want to reaffirm anyone thats new and about to purchase live rock.
I recently made online orders of live rock and got a couple larger peices (one was around 40 lbs, and all I have to say is that the one large peice made my life alot easier as opposed to balancing numerouse smaller peices
just had to throw this out there for the new purchasers of rock as it truley will make your life easier (which in this hobby never hurts)
__________________ #27 Darrent Williams
#29 Damien Nash Quote: |
Originally Posted by aresgod it is still a know fact that clowns, anthias, and various other fish are hermaphroditic(sp?) so just think about what would have happened to nemo...yes thats right, his dad would turn into a female, then he and nemo would mate...far from disney right? or is it......? | |
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10-19-2006, 11:58 AM
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| | Teenie Weenie Fish
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Sweden
Posts: 25
| Agree, nice post!
/Mats |
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02-16-2008, 06:38 PM
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| | Teenie Weenie Fish
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Indiana
Posts: 8
| I was wondering, can too much coraline algae choke out your LR?
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04-12-2008, 05:13 PM
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| | Teenie Weenie Fish
Join Date: Apr 2008
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| Live Rock Can Live Rock also be placed in a fresh water auarium. |
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04-12-2008, 06:48 PM
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| | Medium Fish
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Staten Island, NY
Posts: 491
| you could put it in of course, but it would be a waste.. everything would die
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