First SW Tank

[makana]

Does anyone have firsthand experiance with tuffa rock, negative or positive?

I have read lots of articles and posts claiming that tuffa is bad but they are never by someone who has actually used it. All the posts I am finding from people who have used it are positive.

I read a post from a woman who claims to have nothing but tuffa in her tank with no problems for years. I also read a post from someone who claimed to have 350lbs of concrete with only 40lbs of live rock and no problems.

I would be interested to hear from people here what your experiances are with it.

[Patrice]

Originally Posted by makana

I have read lots of articles and posts claiming that tuffa is bad but they are never by someone who has actually used it. All the posts I am finding from people who have used it are positive.

That is true for many things in this hobby. I like to experiment new stuff and most of the time, people tell me it can't work (even when it actually does work). That surprise me when you think that curiosity is a big thing in this hobby. This is just like the time when we use to say the earth is flat and don't want to hear an other theory about it.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by makana

Does anyone have firsthand experiance with tuffa rock, negative or positive?

I have read lots of articles and posts claiming that tuffa is bad but they are never by someone who has actually used it. All the posts I am finding from people who have used it are positive.

yes, I used it about 20 years ago on my first Reef tank, and I have tried it on several fresh water tanks..

people like it as it is cheep, very cheep about 17 cents a lb is you go to the mines in BC and buy it direct. they also refuse to believe that that is what could be causing the problem. Now not every piece of tuffa or lava rock will cause problems it all depends whats in it. I had algae problems for two years till I broke down and got some live rock, which was very expensive and hard to come by back then. then magicly all my algae problems dissapered over the course of a month.

This has come up on the board a few times over the years, I think about 5 years ago there was a lot of discussion on it if you wanted to do a search. I was actualy one of the people looking into trying it again as I am inharently cheep Actualy if you go back to the start of the board there were a bunch of us cheep guys and we tried to do all kinds of things with lights, sand, ect some interisting reading on some, others a real good laugh.

Steve