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Live Rock 20 lbs is "uncured", porous live rock that contains coralline algae. This is farmed live rock so it does not damage natural reef systems. Live Rock will benefit reef aquariums and fish-only aquariums. Live rock provides a natural food source for some marine fish. Live rock aids in the breakdown of waste produced by marine fish. Perfect place for live corals to attach themselves to.

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Marine Antichlorine and Antichloramine by Marine Enterprises International is economical and is buffered and safe for use in both freshwater and saltwater aquariums. Marine Antichlorine and Antichloramine uses only one drop per gallon to removes chlorine instantly, and uses only two drops per gallon to breaks down chloramine so the ammonia may be removed by a carbon system.

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Live Rock 20 lbs is "uncured", porous live rock that contains coralline algae. This is farmed live rock so it does not damage natural reef systems. Live Rock will benefit reef aquariums and fish-only aquariums. Live rock provides a natural food source for some marine fish. Live rock aids in the breakdown of waste produced by marine fish. Perfect place for live corals to attach themselves to.

Caribbean Live Rock 20 lbs can only be shipped Next day Air and 2nd Day Air to your door. Live Rock cannot be shipped to International Destinations, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam or the Virgin Islands.

Availability: Usually ships the same business day.

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Curing

Live Rock

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LIVE ROCK

 Under normal circumstances, it performs the tasks of a complete Wet/Dry system, Fluidized Bed or Undergravel filter. It is called live rock due to the colonization of live bacteria -- the same that would normally be present in your biological filter

In a closed aquaria system, live rock is by far the healthiest and most beneficial means of biological filtration. As it resembles nature more closely, it is healthier for your fish and livestock as well. It also acts as a home for reef coral and other invertebrates.

Live rock consists of the calcium carbonate skeletons of long dead corals,

or other calcareous organisms.

Therefore the name "live rock" is really a misnomer as the rock itself is not actually "alive", but it does contain a multitude of life both inside and out.

This type of live rock is good for use a base rock. Rock that is devoid of external life that probably won't see much light that you can put other forms of more advanced live rock and corals onto to build your reef system base once your tank has settled and the base rock is seeded.

The rock now favored by most live rock farmers

is the ancient reef rock.

You can also learn to make your own live rock for fun and profit with the AragocreteTM and Superglue Reef Aquarium method from GARF. This is a fascinating technique that Sally Jo and LeRoy Headlee have developed over the years to propagate and cultivate your own corals from cuttings and gluing them onto your own rock. For more information about this process visit their Super Glue Research Project page.

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How Much do I need?

Typically, most reef systems will have anywhere from 1.5 - 2.5lbs per gallon. We recommend starting out with a smaller rock for starters, just to get a feel for how quickly your tank will fill up.

The correct amount of live rock to have in a reef tank is between a minimum of 1 pound per gallon and a maximum of 1.75 pounds per gallon. Somewhere in the middle, like 1.35 pounds per gallon, would be ideal. Do not exceed 1.75, unless you want to turn some quality live rock into base rock, which would take at least a year to recover and resemble what it was before other rock was stacked on top of it.

ADDING THE LIVE ROCK AND THE LIVE SAND

There are significant advantages to using cured live rock in your reef or fish-only aquarium. First, rock helps to maintain the natural ecological balance of your aquarium system.

For me, the terms live sand and live rock have always sounded like a great way to add swarms of new and interesting unidentified

animals to a tank. Unfortunately, if this is your intention, you will probably be disappointed with both types of live media because in

reality, relatively few animals are included (although the number of animals on board does tend to vary from shipment to shipment). What they do contain though, is nitrifying and de-nitrifying bacteria.

Limestone as a Live Rock Alternative

In todays environmental climate there is increasing pressure on Governments by environmental groups across the world to restrict the collection of anything and every-thing living for use in our aquariums.

Live rock seems to be the first prime target as in recent years the collection of live rock from Florida has ceased except for live rock leases.

CURING LIVE ROCK

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Albert J. Thiel

I would like to propose that you can cycle the aquarium with "uncured" rock and end up with more life-forms on the rock than when you use cured, yet have as good a water quality at the end of the biological cycle, if not better. Note that I wrote the better aquarium as that is indeed what I have found. That is the method I now follow myself as well as recommend and that I would like to suggest to you too because I have had such good success with it. The only caveat is that you will need a little more patience. Indeed, you will have to go through a full 28-30 day biological cycle without any additional animals added to the tank.

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Our experiments have shown us that this is the very best type of rock to use to start a captive reef especially when you can purchase the rock directly from the collector.

It is very easy to understand why rock that was grown by Dale Barger, collected by Dale Barger, and shipped by Dale Barger will arrive in much better shape than rock that has been sitting in a cardboard box for about a week :)

Florida Aquaculture Rock always has many surprisingly beautiful macro algae and sponges a growing on it. The most interesting macro algae on this piece of rock is a beautiful red Proto-Caulerpa that is proving to be very hardy in captivity.

Live rocks from this part of the Gulf of Mexico often have many species of Coralline algae growing on the same rock. On this piece of rock you can see many types of branching Coralline algae that would have surely been scrubbed off of any rock imported from the Pacific.

To the left of the Red macro algae there is a nice colony of live coral that is very hardy in captivity. These corals often live for years.

One of the best things about Florida Aquaculture rock is all the beautiful types of feather duster worms that grow so well in the Gulf of Mexico. Many of these feather duster worms reproduce in captivity.

In the years since we started testing Florida aquaculture rock we have noticed many different types of feather duster worms and interesting sponges growing on our Aragocrete live rock. It is very exciting to sit down with a magnifying glass and study the Florida Aquaculture rock when it comes in because it often has barnacles and small live corals.

One of the other benefits to using Florida aquaculture rock to seed your live reef is the fact that this rock started out as road fill. By carefully choosing the right area to plant this rock Dale Barger has created a great ecologically sound way for you have beautiful live rock.

Each rock is totally unique and Dale packs his rock to be shipped in 30 pound boxes that include a variety of types and sizes.

We use a mixture of two types of CaribSea gravel in our reefs. The mixture of CaribSea Aruba Shell and Seaflor special grade make a perfect nitrogen-removing filter.

ARAGOCRETE TM CAVE TABLE

AND TWO CAVES

The Eco-Sand Plenum consists of the light grid plate with a Geofabric nylon mesh above it. This nylon mesh allows part of the gravel to fall down between the course plastic threads. Because the Eco-Sand Plenum comes as one complete filter plate there is no way to set up wrong. You just pour the gravel on to the plate and the proper amount falls down between the nylon threads.

Each of these aquariums will be set up identically so that we can test commercially available equipment that may be useful in setting up tanks for raising brood stock. After we have added the Eco-Sand Plenum and the CaribSea gravel we will start building the reef using 3 Aragocrete reef tables. These lightweight, porous Aragocrete reef tables each have three legs that support the main part of the reef above the gravel. When the entire reef has been added only nine points will touchdown so that the gravel will be able to have as much open water flowing over it as possible. On top of these three reef tables we will add two large Aragocrete Cave Arches that will reach almost to the water surface. The final piece of Aragocrete sculpture will be a large Aragocrete cave. These six pieces of Aragocrete will weigh approximately 50 lbs. and they will make up the majority of the finished reef. We will then finished the rest of the reef structure by adding 30 lbs. of Dale Barger's Florida Aquaculture Rock. what we have used this combination in tanks before we have noticed that the animals from the aquaculture live rock soon to migrate to the Aragocret, and it is always fun to watch the Aragocrete Sculptures take on the purple and pink colors of coralline algae.

Each of the Eco-Sand Plenums come with the three quarter inched up right pipe and we will start bringing the Aragocrete and CaribSea gravel to life by using the Eco-Sand Plenum as an under gravel filter for the for several months. As soon as we have brought the salinity and temperature of the Instant ocean to 1.024 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit we will add the GARF Grunge and Reef Janitors.

Each of these brood stock reef will be equipped with three maxi jet 1200 power heads and only one of them will be used to power the Eco-Sand Plenum. Powering the plenum for a short will speed up the conditioning of the new systems with bacteria and other microorganisms. During the first 20 years of my marine aquarium keeping experiences we set up literally hundreds and hundreds of under gravel filters. These filters often work very well for several years and then they would clog up and they no longer effectively acted as an efficient bacteria filter. The other to power heads we placed so that they create a rotating water flow.

After the first two months when we have seen indications that the gravel bed is becoming populated with worms and chitons we will remove the Maxi Jet power head from the intake to cap it with a three-quarter inch PVC cap.

This method of starting a brood stock reef has allowed us to

These systems will then be stocked with 30 pounds of Florida Aquacultured rock. We will light these systems with 3- 40 watt bulbs consisting of 2- Actinic whites and 1- Actinic blue. For the first few weeks after the tanks are set up we will use only the actinic bulbs. after we have started to see an increase in the amount of coralline we will add the two Actinic White bulbs. During the next two semesters we will be reporting on these tanks progress.

Sally Jo has several of the systems that are over one year old and it is amazing how many types of corals thrive in this system. The aquaculture rock we have tested in the past varied quite a bit in quality.

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