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Old 07-26-2003, 03:13 AM
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exactly.. he sells it as "aquacultured" rock..

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Old 07-26-2003, 07:25 AM
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The live rock you buy at the LFS starts out like this. Suppliers just toss it in the ocean (Fiji, Marshal Island, etc) where they hold foreshore leases and make a reef. You can do this in your tank, it just takes some time.
Only aquacultured rock is done like that.. when you buy "Normal" live rock it is actualy reef rubble they colect.

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I didn't think they were allowed to collect any real reef rock, rubble or otherwise, anymore. I thought all live rock from your LFS could be considered aquacultured.
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Old 07-26-2003, 04:56 PM
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nope they can colect rock if it is rubble only. what they are not allowed to do is blast chunks of the reef to make rubble. they have to let storms do the work now.

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Old 07-27-2003, 11:51 AM
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I used "lace rock" from Big Al's. Tufa will work too. Mine cycled in five weeks, and then I added a few chunks of cured live rock from the LFS. Two months later, the tank is healthy and the ex-terrestrial rock is home to amphipods, bristleworms, and now corraline algae.

If your definition of live rock is porous rock covered in nitrifying bacteria, then you can easily start with terrestrial rock and avoid all hitch hikers. If you want algae, crustaceans, worms, etc, then you need something from direct from a reef environment.

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