Man idk are you sure about that? I remember when I bought mine I reached out to everyone during the storms last year and it was same thing from everyone. Already have thousands of lbs on back order. Then I found Dan at gulfliverock and it turned out that he had something like a 20000 lb backorder. So either they are all paying him to dive said sites or they are maybe getting rock from his?
Still have most of it in my current 220 reef. But it's my understanding that TBS (under new owners) won't be shipping rock till the fall. I'm looking for some real live rock to seed my Caribsea Life Rock structures I made for a new tank I'm setting up this June. I don't have interest in all the critters (good or bad) or algae, so I'd like to just save some money and go with base rock. I wouldn't need it air shipped or overnight either as I just need the bacteria to survive. It doesn't specify that the "Coralline Base Rock" comes from the same place as the Primo rock on the Gulf Live Rock website. My guess is that it is the denser burried rock that the "Primo" rock covers at their sites but I'm not sure. I emailed them but never got a reply. Guess I'll have to give them a call.
Did he say when he would ship? I placed and order last week and got the “oh I am sold out but hope to get some more this week.”
On the phone he said he might have 35lb is stock. If not he’ll be getting more early in the week. I haven’t got any shipping notification so I’m guessing I’m still on the “wait” list.
I bought the sand only to seed my dry rock in separate container. It had a lot of different size pieces of stuff and shell pieces in it. A good portion of the actual sand was very fine. Don't think it would work well in high flow. Looks a lot more natural than off the shell bagged sand.
Update - Gulf Live Rock just refunded me my money. No explanation sent. Looks like I'll be going with KP Aquatics!I ordered 35lbs from Gulf Live Rock last Saturday (24 April), payment sent using PayPal. Sent several emails since inquiring about shipping status, but never any reply, so I'm in the dark what the status is. Do these guys never answer email, or send tracking info?! It's a bit frustrating to say the least
