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Old 09-13-2005, 03:35 PM   #11 (permalink)
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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!!!
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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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Old 01-19-2006, 10:22 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Talking 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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Old 02-02-2006, 03:00 AM   #13 (permalink)
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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!
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Nice sticky helped me pick live rock for a good base of cycling my tank
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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)
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Agree, nice post!

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Old 10-11-2007, 07:20 AM   #17 (permalink)
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I have a question about the limestone in this link. Aquarium Texas HOLEY ROCK coral tanks reef base live - (eBay item 190161512925 end time Oct-14-07 20:00:00 PDT) It says ok in salt water, what do you guys think would coraline algae grow and this actually become good LR?
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I was wondering, can too much coraline algae choke out your LR?
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Old 04-12-2008, 05:13 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Can Live Rock also be placed in a fresh water auarium.
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you could put it in of course, but it would be a waste.. everything would die
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