Live Rock and Base Rock Question

[Kryptikhan]

If I'm going to buy liverock and baserock to let the baserock eventually turn to live....what's the absolute bare minimum of liverock can I purchase....also what's a good amt of base rock I should buy coinciding with the live rock?

Or should I just buy lots of liverock in beginning.......

thx

[demonsp]

The more LR you get the bigger the chance of hitchhikers GOOD or BAD. Any base rock will become live in time, just takes a little longer. I think a good 50 50 combanation works well.

[SALT WATER CRAZ]

thats what I did I added a lot of base rock and seeded it with live rock.

[Blown 346]

I agree with the others. when you do get liverock, I would inspect it very well. I had 8 unwanted crabs that appeared in mine. It was a huge hassle after losing fish after fish until I caught them all.