Eco Rox

[hillbillyreefer]

I found a couple pieces of dry rock in one of the big box stores bins that looked like they'd work on Monday. It was stupid expensive at $3 something a pound too. Would make better base rock than anything but still fairly porous. It'll work for what I want to do with it with no fear of bad hitchers.

The weight issue is a bonus buying dry, not paying a bunch of green for water. Lance would you care to guess the difference in volume of LR versus the dry stuff? Would there be 50% more volume in the dry?

[Lance]

Originally Posted by hillbillyreefer

I found a couple pieces of dry rock in one of the big box stores bins that looked like they'd work on Monday. It was stupid expensive at $3 something a pound too. Would make better base rock than anything but still fairly porous. It'll work for what I want to do with it with no fear of bad hitchers.

The weight issue is a bonus buying dry, not paying a bunch of green for water. Lance would you care to guess the difference in volume of LR versus the dry stuff? Would there be 50% more volume in the dry?

To answer your question I weighed a piece of live rock from the QT tank (It was 4 lbs) 4 lbs in the dry rock was probably a little less than 1.5 x the size. The live rock was a pretty lousy piece though, not very porous at all.

[hillbillyreefer]

That was my rough guess too. About 50% bigger dry rock. Hard to be really scientific, because of density differences etc, etc. Thanks for the info Lance.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by hillbillyreefer

That was my rough guess too. About 50% bigger dry rock. Hard to be really scientific, because of density differences etc, etc. Thanks for the info Lance.

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