In case you haven't seen it...

[Willow]

Originally Posted by andrewsk

That is absolutly amazing. I would buy that RIGHT NOW.

would you? the price will be almost twice the price of live rock!

[andrewsk]

I sure would. Not to beat a dead horse but since I am so anti-wall of rock, some of thos structures would save me days of work.

I am currently putting together a rock structure with a huge shelf and branching structures from Tonga Live Rock with Ties, Rods and aquascaping Putty.

It has so far taken me a week and I think at least 1 more to complete it. I guess the question for me is, how much is my time worth.

Originally Posted by Willow

would you? the price will be almost twice the price of live rock!

[RobbAdams]

it's not really that expensive, according to what i can make out in their catalogue, a 2x2 foot square piece is 110 euros, or 168 bucks. thats less than 20 pounds of indonesian LR at $8/lb with GST.

Robb

[Pescador]

These are the ones I was looking at last year, kind of the same idea.
http://www.3d-aquarium-backgrounds.c...y/prod_11.html


In Taiwan they had some plain black molded foam reef backgrounds that were cheap and looked awesome once they were covered in coraline. I was already over limit on my luggage. I should ask the Brother-in-law if he could track them down.

[support@proline]

We do distribute reefceramics in canada ,all pieces in stock & you can get them from our dealers,in case of Alberta Golds would be the best place to go with for reef ceramic ,Albert knows about those pieces & he can bring them in if you wish.
The other benefit of using Reef ceramics over live rock is minimal cycling ,with almost no algae cycles ,there is no nutrient build up & no pests of any kind,they are real ceramic made out of calcium based material & porous.
The shapes are amazing ,my favorites are the back wall plates.

[Quagmire]

So if you went ceramic,you would still have to find a pod population somewhere.Or maybe still have some live rock.

[support@proline]

All you will need for pods ,is the rocks that your corals are attached to or a piece of macro algae in fuge .
You can also purchase various different live pods or other organisms from LFS in a bottle.
You can also throw a couple small pieces of LR in tank for that reason.
IMHO the best thing about Reefceramics ,is ZERO NUTRIENT BUILD UP & THEREFORE NO ALGAE CYCLES.

[albert_dao]

If you exported a bunch of Chaeto from another refugium, you'd be in good shape.

On that note, sometimes I see people putting more work into getting a pod population going than they do into making a tank that they're proud to look at. Personally, I think the role of microcrustaceans is largely overrated. Unless you're trying to keep a Mandarin or similar fish alive, your time is better spent watching paint dry. Just my opinion of the whole pod thing though. :P

[midgetwaiter]

Thanks for the link Albert, cool stuff! The Aqua Medic nano looks interesting, Giesman always slick stuff too of course.

The Arche Noah lights jumped out at me, very nice form factor. Most impressive has to be the new Sieo stuff though, led mini lights, a new hob skimmer and that Polario pump all look pretty interesting.

anyone lese notice this clam pic?

http://www.korallenriff.de/29interzoo/lage_6.jpg

[AndyL]

Personally, I'm drooling over those hydor recirc needlewheel skimmers... Too bad we dont have a dealer anymore... Ah well, thank god for ebay.

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