The Term Live Rock is such a misnomer and its confusing to many. Then over time these L/R suppliers sponsored a few authors and they preached Bio Diversity of L/R and then the Berlin and it just opened the door for the Suppliers to sell it for what was on the rock that was going to die off anyways. Not to mention what was in it that would not die off and maybe would eat the tanks animals one at a time.
I myself have used it but it was just to run several smaller systems to see the results compared to system Ii ran using base rock.. The base rocks in the long run gave me less problematic systems just as healthy and as much bio diversity arrived at from what larva and spores came in from the seeding of the dead systems with a good sand and rubble bio charge from an older tank. Even My Berlins ran just as well and I never had any killer pest or disease or algaes to contend with..
It was all started for the reason you could add water and L/R and fish and corals that same day of the set up.. _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) |