Dose a hammer and a flathead screw driver work for aquascaping?

[BaileysTank]

Hello everyone I am trying to smash up some dry rock and I’m on the fence on weather to purchase a chisel or just use a flathead screw driver I don’t need. Any other suggestions on ways to smash the rock and if there are tips on how to smash it precisely I would be great full to here them.

 

[blaxsun]

Anything that breaks... works.

 

[WVNed]

I have used a screwdriver before. It might work. The trick is to strike it moderately all along where you want it to break and then go over that line again a few times hitting it slightly harder trying to get that line to fracture. A chisel is sharp though so it acts like a wedge when you do this. A screwdriver not so much.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Those are my go-to tools . . LOL

 

[BaileysTank]

Those are my go-to tools . . LOL

Question, is it okay to take some established rocks from my tank smash them and put them in a new scape? I would spray them constantly to hopefully keep the bacteria alive, but would this work and would the bacteria still be in the rock?

 

[YOYOYOReefer]

a brick saw will cut it any way you want it.

 

[Karen00]

I have used a screwdriver before. It might work. The trick is to strike it moderately all along where you want it to break and then go over that line again a few times hitting it slightly harder trying to get that line to fracture. A chisel is sharp though so it acts like a wedge when you do this. A screwdriver not so much.

I took a stone walling course a few years ago and this is exactly what you do to break stone where you want it for building a wall. I have some reef rock I want to break up for my tank so maybe the skills I learned will come in handy.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Question, is it okay to take some established rocks from my tank smash them and put them in a new scape? I would spray them constantly to hopefully keep the bacteria alive, but would this work and would the bacteria still be in the rock?

Yes you can