Limestone in Texas as Live rock?

Discussion in 'Live Rock' started by robwerden, Jun 14, 2009.

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  1. coldshot

    coldshot Blue Ringed Angel

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    I did have somewhat of a misconception about porous.....
    Thank's for the info Bro,
    I would not use it either....
    The holes is the exact reason I am somewhat unhappy
    with my dry rock....
    Had I known it had so many swiss cheese holes I would have went live,
    I was new and did'nt have any idea the dry rock was like this....
    If you want rock and want to be happy go to the LFS and
    cherry pick live rock there....
    For a freshwater tank texas holy rock and limestone would be ideal.
    So now you know if you use limerock or Texas holy rock,
    your tank will only be part benificial for the inhabitant's...
    Good Luck and thnx again Sparky for chiming in on this....
    Danny
     
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  3. coldshot

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  5. robwerden

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    So as a base it is safe to use, but it can not replace light weight porous live rock as a bio filter.
     
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    It's completely safe, but it's pretty much useless as a biological filter. LR is such an efficient biological filter because of the surface area of the rock. LR is not just "rock." It's really something special. Texas Holey Rock is "just rock."

    For a firepit in the backyard, it'd be really special. For the reef aquarium, it's useless. If it were me, I'd stay away from it.
     
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    I wouldn't use it, simply because of where it came from (road construction). There will be god knows how many decades worth of oil, coolant, gas, exhaust, natural urban pollutants, etc that have undoubtedly leached into it. Just asking for trouble if you put that into a tank IMHO.
     
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  9. robwerden

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    Sounds logical.
    I will be needing quite a bit of LR. Im wondering for the purpose of getting as much surface area covered what type of LR weighs the least, covers the most square footage and is interesting looking?
    Im starting a 215 gallon tank with a area of 72x29h x 24, so I was thinking of buying this uncured stuff
    Aquarium Live Rock Atlantic Ocean Fresh. 50 lbs $149 - eBay (item 220401507668 end time Jun-21-09 19:06:52 PDT)

    My tank is empty right now so I was hoping buying uncured would help cycle it and it would just cure in the tank for a couple months before I started to stock it.
     
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    Just do all base, and get as little live rock as possible. Reefcleaners.org has good prices on base rock, and gives free shipping on orders over 30 pounds. Contrary to popular belief, the amount of live rock does not affect cycle time or anything like that. I used 1 pound of live rock and 1 cup of live sand to seed my 200.
     
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    now thats food for thought