I tried it, all the bells and whistles too (plastic shavings, macaroni, yadda, yadda), it was gay. I prefer the look of the real thing. Additionally, you get all these cool things in real live rock. I suppose, by that same token, that you can also get some really nasty things, but that's what a screw driver, a flashlight and a bucket of water is for.
That all said, expect to spend the majority of a summer curing the stuff and having a relatively sterile tank for the first six months of set up.
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