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Old 12-19-2009, 12:00 AM
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Originally Posted by shrimpchips View Post
So I'm looking to get between 50 - 75lbs of dry base rock for my upcoming upgrade (whenever that happens), and wanted people's opinions on dry rock purchases.

I know BRS and Marco rocks ship to Canada, but after the shipping costs and such, it comes out the same (almost) as LR from my LFS. Might as well buy handpicked LR and let it dry out then.

So I've been looking for Canadian places to get dry LR from.

I've found two places, both in Ontario:
http://www.eco-reefer.com/
http://www.reefrocks.ca/Fiji%20Base%20Rock.html

So far reefrocks.ca sounds and looks pretty good, and has really cheap shipping (free after $200, $6.95 flat below that). Anybody with experiences?
Other places?
I'm in a similar boat, I'm going to need rock eventually for my 75G build (going very slowly). I've done the dry rock thing before using Carib-Sea south seas lace rock. Worked pretty well, takes a bit (lot) of time to get the coralline though. Having said that I was seeding about 40lbs from 2lbs of live rock..!

The reefrocks.ca stuff looks the best from the pictures - is very tempting.. If you look at the pictures and text it's all the same as the MarcoRocks website. It certainly looks 100% better than the Carib-Sea stuff I have right now.
From the quick look I had, the price on reefrocks is much higher per lb than the MarcoRocks website, so I guess you're paying for the shipping one way or another..

I'd be really interested to know from anyone who's had it if it's as good as the pictures look.
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