make your own rock?

[christyf5]

Well primarily, the reason we get live rock from down south is the temperature. The water temperature here reaches a max of about 13 degrees during the heat of summer. So you put any rock from the coast in your tank with your tropical stuff and everything dies. Then you have problems. Unless you want to run a chiller and that is a whole other ballgame.

If you're interested in getting rock from around here you'd be best to leave it out in the sun for awhile and then what is the point anyway. You've just killed everything on it and besides that you don't know what may leech out of the rock in your small (smaller than the ocean anyway) tank.

IMO, $7 a pound is a small price to pay for an instant reef. $2 a pound is even better but then I would have to seed it and wait and I don't have the patience for that. Heck, I could hardly even wait the 8 weeks for my tank to cycle (we won't even talk about that one [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

Christy [img]smile.gif[/img]