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Originally Posted by CHEAPREEF
Have you been down to look at Ray's rock? (the one that isn't open on wednesday) It's not the nicest looking rock, pretty plane no coline ect.
Clinton
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Yeah, we were at Ray's late last week shortly after we decided to set up the 42 hex. His is the Indonesian. Some of it has some coraline and some have interesting shapes. I'd only take the pieces that appealed to me, though. Price is $9/lb.
We're going to Big Al's tonight. Their rock is the cheapest in town at $8/lb. Some of it is already growing fuzzy green algae, though a few astreas will take care of that in no time. There again, I'd only take the pieces that looked good for the type of aquascaping we're hope to accomplish.
The rock at AI is Tonga branch at $10/lb. That's what we have in our 2.5 gal nano. It's totally uncycled and after a week in our 2.5, ammonia and nitrite levels are 5 ppm and up. I can't see much use for the Tonga branch in the 42, but I'll probably stop back there over the next couple of days just to it check out a little further. They may have gotten a new shipment of rock this week. Stopping in around noon is always a good idea since that seems to be the time they open whatever shipments they've brought back from the airport that morning. I can always call first and save a trip, but, heck, I like looking around the store at the fish and crawly critters, They're having a severe cyano attack in their large open top coral tank. Sad to see the cyano on their beautiful corals :-(