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04/23/2018, 01:09 AM | #1 |
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growing live rock
i was wondering how difficult it would be to grow your own live rock and if an sps would go down thru the sand and encrust to the glass bottom kind of like a plant
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By grow your own live rock what do you mean? Make the rock yourself and run a tank of it to make it live? Buy dry rock? Something else I’m not thinking of? You can make rock, there are those that do, a search here will find some threads on it. As for the sps I’d say likely no, it would have to start on a rock you anchored to the glass but the sand around the coral would irritate it.
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Shortly after you put dry rock into a tank of saltwater it becomes live rock..
"live" just refers to the point where it starts to become colonized with living bacteria.. and no corals don't have roots and don't grow into unlit areas..
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WOW I never knew you could GROW rocks.
Someone tell me why the heck we have been buying rock all these years?
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Never had a Magic Rocks Kit? Crystal Growing Kit? Rock Candy Kit?
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Must have been. never had any of those, but did eat rock candy every time we went to camp.
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I almost think that OP thinks that live rock is dead coral?
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you think live rock is not dead coral?
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Well, it is, so...
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live rock is any rock with bacteria in its pores/ on the surface does not matter what kind of rock as long as it has bacteria living on it.
on a side note i thought he meant grow like put a pebble in the water and have it turn into a 10lb rock
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04/23/2018, 12:09 PM | #11 |
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Read the 'preparing rock' thread atop this forum. That will help you. Yes, you can condition the right KIND of rock to perform as live rock. Limestone is best, but raw limestone may present you with a load of phosphate (algae fuel) ---getting rid of that is one reason you condition rock. Stay away from other kinds of rock: some types have metals and others are too dense.
Adding just one fist-sized 'very live' rock with worms and such growing on it (from a healthy tank) will spread that life to all the rock.
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what i mean is grow sps and pull it out then let it die then place the dead coral skeleton back in and use it as live rock, but taking a few frags off first of course
Ive always been confused how do you add rock to a pre-established tank without causing a massive swing in water quality ie.(mini cycle,) because that's what worry's me most about adding live rock my 75 gallon tank already cycled for almost 2 months with 5 hermits, cheato in a CPR medium refugium, im seeing a lot of copepods and using marine pure spheres for my primary bio filter |
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growing live rock
You add rock to an existing system slowly. Add a piece or 2, wait 2 weeks add again, wait, etc
No idea why you would want to grow sps then kill it then put it back in??? You mean the rock? |
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I cant imagine anyone deliberately growing corals for the purpose of killing them and turning their skeletons into live rock. But real live rock *is* dead coral skeletons. And if a coral dies in your tank, it will also turn into live rock after all the worms, sponges, algae, and bacteria colonize it. So in a sense yes this proposal has some merit. Just seems like a slow, costly, and labor intensive way to get live rock...
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i think ill just add live rock then
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It took mother nature millions of years building skeleton upon skeleton to form the coral reefs we have now. Some rock is mined here in Fla. from prehistoric coral reefs that are now inland.
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