As I didn’t state that you said it was exactly the same, I simply stated it would be no where close to live gulf rock. Even after a year and adding bottle bacteria and getting a few rocks from a few different friends tanks trying to get bio diversity(yes you will achieve some good biodiversity but nothing like Mother Nature). It is a step in the right direction, but would never measure up to the real deal.
I’m a bit cautious , if they put the rocks in the sump , or a holding that’s tied to a coral tank ,
dude is that yours where you get it and how much h a pound was it
aussie rock.
Pristine marine aquariums. And it’s 35$ a lb. That’s not mine. That’s some of what he just got the other day. Pricey, but for those with the pockets and want something better than florida rock it’s really the only option.
Yea so you acknowledge that I know what I’m talking about when I say that I would never do that sterile bottle bacteria route again. that dry rock path is what led to that disaster.
By your logic tho, then my tank should have been fine. Started with dry rock and seeded with bottled bacteria and then added liverock from existing systems and after months of time it never settled into an established biome cables of keeping corals alive. But all it did was let any pest that happened to get in run rampant because there was absolutely no competition. Things reach balance when there’s a creature for every niche, if you don’t have that then things get out of whack quickly.
The advantage of living in OZI have a local lfs that sells live rock off the GBR.
My tank was cycled inside a month.
Week 5
Same thing for exporting to the USA and it makes way more sense to send corals vs rock in that situation
I literally didnt type bottled bacteria anywhere . I've started several tanks with dry and if you throw in biospira or dry Tim's you're only getting certain bacteria to colonize . However what I did say was by adding things that have huge amounts of surface like marine pure blocks and spheres from a really established tank could help create more biodiversity initially then just bottled bacteria to bring down ammonia which is pretty much standard procedure. It's just silly to say that if I left 3 huge bricks ( which had the surface area of like 65 pounds of rock)in an established sump for 6 months that it wouldnt help seed some dry rock in a month. WILL IT BE THE SAME AS LIVE ROCK ? NO!! However it's going to have some sort of impact over dump and pray that dr tim can take you to mini great barrier reef .there is a reason people use marine pure bricks sometimes to start a qt because of the biodiversity it has on it. Will some of it be the same as found in dr Tim's probably !! Will there be others too, probably !
I’m gonna respectfully disagree with you.
Not everyone has a 250 gallon tank and as far as surface area its has 1000% times the surface area . There are a lot moving parts , did you use enough?, did you get it from a healthy thriving system ,how long was it in there ? How long did you leave it in there ? The idea is it's better than nothing . We're just having a debate and throwing out ideas that can potentially help people .
aussie rock.
I get it dude, you’re beating a dead horse tho.
