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08-29-2007, 10:16 AM
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#21 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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This is what the rock looked like when I brought it home. About 120 lbs. of it.  
Now if you want to put crap like that in your tank then by all means do it. Not me! That is NOT coralline algae on the rock!
This is what it looked like after I was done with it. Just base rock, but at least I am not introducing problem in my tank. Little bit harder to contain and treat a problem in 300+ gallons of water.  _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
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03-16-2008, 07:26 PM
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#22 (permalink)
| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Texas Age: 40
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I'm starting to buy in on the whole base rock myself. If you could only buy live rock seed in a bottle, we could save the reefs. It would be great for everyone, you buy live rock, bleach it, pour in a little "instant reef" and then wait one week for homemade live rock. | |
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03-16-2008, 07:40 PM
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#23 (permalink)
| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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Originally Posted by bawest  I'm starting to buy in on the whole base rock myself. If you could only buy live rock seed in a bottle, we could save the reefs. It would be great for everyone, you buy live rock, bleach it, pour in a little "instant reef" and then wait one week for homemade live rock. | Pretty much what happens anyways. Just let the rock sit and it will become live rock. In an established tank, no probs, your bacteria should spread to the base rock. In a cycling tank either your dead shrimp or fish will provide the necessary bacteria. Either way base rock becomes live rock, just takes a little more time, which never hurts a thing in SW! _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | |
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03-16-2008, 07:45 PM
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#24 (permalink)
| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Texas Age: 40
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But then you have no coralline algae, worms snails etc.
My instant reef in a bottle will have all this good stuff in it. | |
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03-16-2008, 07:52 PM
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#25 (permalink)
| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Wisconsin
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I cured 45 pounds of live rock in my dorm room, I thought it was going to be pretty bad, it wasn't, didn't smell at all, but i did scrub the rocks pretty good in a bucket of saltwater before putting them in a rubbermaid container. _________ 75 gallon, 2 korallia #3s, Penguin 350, 20h sump, mag 7 return, 82 pounds of Live rock, Outer Orbit Pendant 10000k 150 watt metal halide, Outer Orbit Pendant 14000k 150 watt metal halide, aquac ev 180 driven by mag 9.5, auto waste conatiner 2.5L,tunze osmolator 3155 top off, 10 gallon or 20 gallon fuge in the work.  | |
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03-16-2008, 08:05 PM
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#26 (permalink)
| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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Originally Posted by bawest But then you have no coralline algae, worms snails etc.
My instant reef in a bottle will have all this good stuff in it. | Get a small peice of LR from a trusted source, and scrape the coralline all over your tank with pliers. Otty did it and he has coralline up the wazooo!
Instant reef in a bottle would not have any parasites in it I would assume, so I guess when it comes out sales will be through the roof! If no guarantee of no parasites, I'm sticking with what I said! | |
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03-16-2008, 08:12 PM
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#27 (permalink)
| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Texas Age: 40
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Maybe we can get Otty's buy in as partner.... his algae, his critters..... we'll call it Otty's reef in a can...... Only thing I ever want from Otty in a can.
We can even put a pic of his tank on the bottle. | |
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03-16-2008, 08:19 PM
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#28 (permalink)
| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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Originally Posted by bawest We can even put a pic of his tank on the bottle. | This alone would sell millions!! Got some pics of it on my phone, I can't get into legal trouble for that can I?!?!  | |
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