I got about 40pnds of LR for free from a local reefer which was frozen... Yes frozen. There's a first for everything. He left his tank to a friend to take care of it while he was out of town and he ended up crashing the tank. He put the rock outside because it stunk and I was the lucky one who got it for free.
Here is the rock when I was cleaning it and cooking it.
Talk about a stink! I had to do this in my apartment. My girlfriend was ****ed!
I also bought about 37pnds of rock from other local reefers in the city. I paid about $5/pnd which is alot better than store prices.
A couple of months later the rock was cleaned and ready to go into the tank.
I also added about 7pnds of rock from my established tank
Here is a pic of the rock in the tank
At this point I was starting to get excited. All the searching for equipment and rock was starting to pay off.