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03-12-2007, 09:54 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Baltimore Age: 42
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 |  Mix and match Live rock
Just a quick question on what you all think about mixing and matching live rock from different places? I have rock from Fiji in my tank at this time, and have been looking at some stuff from Tonga. I know the two islands are not that far apart ( in the big ocean world ) but looking at the structure of the two, they look different. I can also get my hands on some rock from around FL. Thoughts??????? | 
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03-12-2007, 09:57 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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It's always good to mix rock but once you get a lot of coral growing you will never see the rock anymore. Nice to have the different diversity of each though  . _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
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03-12-2007, 10:41 AM
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| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: De
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afik it illegal to collect rock from Florida. you can get cultured rock from Florida. the only wild Caribbean rock you can get legally is from Hattie | |
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03-12-2007, 11:07 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
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There is nothing wrong with mixing types of LR. Its a personal choice for the look of the rock... i have 3 different kind of LR in my tank. But as Otty said, i dont see it much anymore  .
Marc. _________ 
20Gal, 45 lbs LR, 65W PC 10 000K + 65W PC 20 000K + 10Gal sump/fuge
Livestock :hermit and snails, Green star polyps, Button polyps, Finger leather, Xenia, Zoanthids, Mushrooms, Yellow polyps, montipora digitata, acropora, ?mistery polyps?, mistery crab, six line wrasse | |
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03-12-2007, 11:54 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
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Different rock from various parts of the world offer organisms that are many times indiginous to that part where they live only and offer you more diverse bacteria, micororganisms, flora etc. to accent your tank as Otty stated! _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
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