How much rock do you use?

[Doug]

Just to be different, I like lots of rock. Never been an "open" look fan. I love full reef tanks. More rock, better filtration, just need to make sure enough water movement and placement to allow for such. I can say for a fact, most fish we keep, including the cruising tangs, love lots of rock and hidey places. Anyways, just a different opinion to the mix.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Doug

Just to be different, I like lots of rock. Never been an "open" look fan. I love full reef tanks. More rock, better filtration, just need to make sure enough water movement and placement to allow for such. I can say for a fact, most fish we keep, including the cruising tangs, love lots of rock and hidey places. Anyways, just a different opinion to the mix.

I'm with ya Doug lol lots of rock here more the beter lol

[lorenz0]

I'm probably at 0.8/Gal for both tanks

[Lance]

I don't pay much attention to how much rock I use. i just 'scape it 'til I like it. Probably about 1 lb per.

[bignose]

I scaped my tank to how I like it which is less that the pound per gallon. But I filled one of my sump chambers with rock. I don't know how much I have in the tank but it probably worked out to the "pound per gallon rule".

[fishytime]

2lbs/g ish...........110g display not to full looking with probably 100 lbs.....sump STUFF-ED with probably close to another 100 lbs.......the more the better....

[2pts]

I have aproximately 230lbs of live rock, my total volume is aproximately 150 gallons (including sump).

Most of mine is in my display, some in the sump.

I plan to add a 90 gallon second display in series and a larger sump moved down to the basement sometime in the future. I will not add significant rock to my system when I do.

I have a fair amount of Chaeto in my display, I rarely run a skimmer ( I have a cheap, ugly drop in the display one ).

My softies and LPS do decent, I am able to keep a few tough to keep fish species alive as well as my long tentacle anemone. My Amonia, Nitrite, and Nitrate have read zero for a while, so I assume I'm doing something right, lol.

[Milad]

i had probably close to 300lbs of rock in my 180g when i first started. it filled the 180g + the 70g sump.

since then ive taken almost half of the rock out of the display because i didnt like the look. But i still have the rock so im planning a massive outdoor sump to store all the rock and add a big refgium and ATS

so basically what has happened is that I got a great deal on all the rock (really great deal) and ended up with too much rock so now im spending about $1000 on a new outdoor sump which technically would put me at a very bad deal on the really good deal rock.

[intarsiabox]

I just put my rock in until I was happy with the look and added another 20lbs to the sump. I figure what's the point of following a "rule" if the results makes you hate the tank.

[Werbo]

+ 1

Originally Posted by intarsiabox

I just put my rock in until I was happy with the look and added another 20lbs to the sump. I figure what's the point of following a "rule" if the results makes you hate the tank.