How much rock do you use?

[daniella3d]

I use about 40 lbs or so in a 75 gallons but it work great because it's the totoka liverock and it is extremely porous. Not only that but the total amout of surface a small piece of Totoka give is equivalent to a much heavier and larger piece of regular liverock. Because Totoka liverock has a lot of branching, it has a lot more amount of useful surface area.

So I guessed the 40 lbs of Totoka was probably equivalent to 80 lbs of heavy rock shaped liverock with very little surface. Worked great for me as my nitrates are undetectible and the rock seem to be doing a good job at filtration and denitrification.

It's not the quantity that really matter but the quality of the rock you put in there I think.

[fishytime]

2lbs/g ish...........110g display not to full looking with probably 100 lbs.....sump STUFF-ED with probably close to another 100 lbs.......the more the better....

[Milad]

i had probably close to 300lbs of rock in my 180g when i first started. it filled the 180g + the 70g sump.

since then ive taken almost half of the rock out of the display because i didnt like the look. But i still have the rock so im planning a massive outdoor sump to store all the rock and add a big refgium and ATS

so basically what has happened is that I got a great deal on all the rock (really great deal) and ended up with too much rock so now im spending about $1000 on a new outdoor sump which technically would put me at a very bad deal on the really good deal rock.

[intarsiabox]

I just put my rock in until I was happy with the look and added another 20lbs to the sump. I figure what's the point of following a "rule" if the results makes you hate the tank.

[Werbo]

+ 1

Originally Posted by intarsiabox

I just put my rock in until I was happy with the look and added another 20lbs to the sump. I figure what's the point of following a "rule" if the results makes you hate the tank.

[2pts]

I have aproximately 230lbs of live rock, my total volume is aproximately 150 gallons (including sump).

Most of mine is in my display, some in the sump.

I plan to add a 90 gallon second display in series and a larger sump moved down to the basement sometime in the future. I will not add significant rock to my system when I do.

I have a fair amount of Chaeto in my display, I rarely run a skimmer ( I have a cheap, ugly drop in the display one ).

My softies and LPS do decent, I am able to keep a few tough to keep fish species alive as well as my long tentacle anemone. My Amonia, Nitrite, and Nitrate have read zero for a while, so I assume I'm doing something right, lol.