calcium carbonate rock...
 

hey guys,

i think i will forgo the idea of getting some more live rock in favor of the cheaper calcium carbonate rock (i think thats what its called)...anyways does anyone know where i can pick this stuff up and how much it will cost me? thanks.

Go to Riverfront :lol: Yea I know it may be funny that I say that :lol:

Anyway they have a big tub of it in their drygoods section that you can pick through. I got a couple buckets there once for pretty cheep as I remember.

hey what does this rock do ?
is id like just dried out live rock and sold cheaper or ...?

no it is less pouros and actualy minned. basicly a old reef that was covered with land and compressed and petrafied.

it is good for baserock but i would still buy live rock for on top of it.

Steve

I am not sure about being less porous. Ross just picked me up a chunk, and it is surprisingly porous. I was impressed, and am getting more. I think he said it is $8.00/Kg. That is a lot better than $9.00/Lb. I have an older piece that is covered with Coraline algae. It looks a lot like other base type rock. :wink:

Well for once Bob I agree with something you are saying :wink: :P :lol:

I think this rock is more porus than any of the "Actual" live rock I have in my tank. JMO
I have no proof of this other than the odd observation of taking a piece out of the water and watching how much water pours out of it.

ahh i guess less pouros is a bad term.. it is subjective.. I have large chunks of rock (about say 12" x 8" x 8") that you would expect to weigh about 30 lbs actualy weighs about 5lbs then I have a chunk that is 1/2 the size that weighs 15 lbs so there is a large varence in density of LR depending on the type of coral that made it.. I have looked at the stuff you are talking about and it is fairly light but I didn't find it atractive or interesting.. like I said I concider it good stuff to put under the real rock to make it look like you have more.

J&L sells it as CARIBSEA REEF ROCK for 1.50 / lb in a 50 lb box and there is a pic of it under the "Sand and substrate" section of aquarium supplies

the bigest problem I have with it is that it looks like mined rocks.
but now that I think of it I might buy a few lbs to break up more and mount some frags to. :wink:

Steve

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The rock I picked up is *($10)* $5.00 a kilogram . It is rather white but if you could visualize it with some crystaline algae on it (or in my case heavy diatom growth :shock: ) you would be hard pressed to tell the difference from real "live" rock. It has the added advantage/disadvantage of not carrying critters (nasty or nice) with it. It does not look at all mined and has interesting fossilized things of most of it.

ok some question and as you know by now most of my questions a pretty lame but here goes.
ok for live rock oyu all pay 8 or 9 $ a pound? if so just a tip if you didnt know but golds when they have rock is only 6.99 a pound cured.
also i thought it was better to have rock that is porous and less dense(dont know why less dense but i thought i heard it some were)
ok this last question is unrelated really but i thought i read some where there a organisms or creatures or what ever that actually make live rock (like construct and make reef) is this true and if it is wouldnt it be possible to put some into yuour tank and eventualy habve more rock. because that would be nice to see the ever changing rock formations

KGB, Live rock is dead corals, as the grow and die they increase the size of the reef, it isn;t realy rock per say but rather skelitons.. and depending on the type of coral that make it will determan how dense it is.

so unless you have live corals (hard corals) growing in your tank you will not grow live rock.

Steve