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Thanks for the info KAfudafish
It seems from your experience that DIY live rock's ability to act as a filtration medium depends on how it is made, and the results acheived. But this seems promising.
I was ahving a think about it last night, and it occurs to me that its strange that more hasnt been researched into this. I know there are some really detailed threads where people have really put time and effort into delving into the best mix / makeup for DIY live rock, and all of that is really awesome, as it makes it really easy for someon to attempt it. But i have seen experiments conducted to look at the the filtration capablities of DSB vs SSB vs plenums etc, and at least with regards to these people have objective data to make assumptions about how they want to run their system. But with live rock being such an integral part of the current marine, coral keeping world, its suprising to me that more hasnt been locked down in terms of concrete data regarding possible alternatives, The price diddference alone between DIY live rock and live rock is so huge that that alone wold seem to be good incentive.
I do really value your experience though, and i guess with a lack of scientific data, reefkeepers past experiecne with DIY live rock is what shold stand as testimony. I guess the problem is that eadch persons system can be so different that its hard to pin down the cause of problems in a general sense, and by that inference, hard to pin down what might be good (DIY live rock),
ah well, I think I will try a half DIY LR half LR system when i set up my sustem and see how it goes,
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