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Old 02-22-2008, 03:31 AM
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Originally Posted by hillbillyreefer View Post
I found a couple pieces of dry rock in one of the big box stores bins that looked like they'd work on Monday. It was stupid expensive at $3 something a pound too. Would make better base rock than anything but still fairly porous. It'll work for what I want to do with it with no fear of bad hitchers.

The weight issue is a bonus buying dry, not paying a bunch of green for water. Lance would you care to guess the difference in volume of LR versus the dry stuff? Would there be 50% more volume in the dry?
To answer your question I weighed a piece of live rock from the QT tank (It was 4 lbs) 4 lbs in the dry rock was probably a little less than 1.5 x the size. The live rock was a pretty lousy piece though, not very porous at all.
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