Spaghetti Rock in reef tank?

[Poseidon Black Sea]

I have found a rock that looks like pukani but it s called spaghetti rock, Anyone used it in a reef tank? Char GPT tells me it is sandstone based not calcium based but i want to hear your experience. This rock is dirt cheap

 

[Cousteau666]

Bump, because I am curious if anyone has an answer.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have found a rock that looks like pukani but it s called spaghetti rock, Anyone used it in a reef tank? Char GPT tells me it is sandstone based not calcium based but i want to hear your experience. This rock is dirt cheap

I have in past years. Its very light and pourous but useable

 

[Cousteau666]

I have found a rock that looks like pukani but it s called spaghetti rock, Anyone used it in a reef tank? Char GPT tells me it is sandstone based not calcium based but i want to hear your experience. This rock is dirt cheap

Check this out:
Fresh Water Hobby Discussion About This Rock

They have made a claim that it is a marine rock, but no one has actually confirmed it.

 

[Cousteau666]

I have in past years. Its very light and pourous but useable

Nice!

 

[Poseidon Black Sea]

Check this out:
Fresh Water Hobby Discussion About This Rock

They have made a claim that it is a marine rock, but no one has actually confirmed it.

yeah i ve read that but nothing certain

 

[Poseidon Black Sea]

I have in past years. Its very light and pourous but useable

So you are saying that you have used and you are sure you haven t used pukani? I am confused that not a lot of people tryed it it seems so coral like

 

[TokenReefer]

When you say

dirt cheap

what are we talkin, US$?

 

[Poseidon Black Sea]

When you say

what are we talkin, US$?

well in my country it s 3 RON so like 50-75 cents / kg

 

[TokenReefer]

Thanks. Wow that's quite a difference from "marine" dry rock. It looks great to me. Some googling says it's calcium carbonate based and works great. I think I'd grab the whitest pieces. Not sure what would add those colors...

 

[vetteguy53081]

So you are saying that you have used and you are sure you haven t used pukani? I am confused that not a lot of people tryed it it seems so coral like

Years back I got some of this lace type rock from a used setup and I myself believe it was fro dead coral. Back then, blue ridge, cats paw, and many coral skeleton was easy to find

 

[Hans-Werner]

To me the spaghetti rock looks like what we call "Staengeltuff" in German, a calcareous tufa that formed in freshwater around stalks and mosses from freshwater hypersaturated with calcium carbonate. This kind of rock forms the cascades in Croatian Plitvice.

The red color may be from a red loam that is often associated with calcareous tufa.

I used mainly calcareous tufa for two tanks with only a few pieces of live rock and it worked very well, not much different from marine dry rock, maybe even better.

 

[Townes_Van_Camp]

Internet user malfunction

 

[Poseidon Black Sea]

To me the spaghetti rock looks like what we call "Staengeltuff" in German, a calcareous tufa that formed in freshwater around stalks and mosses from freshwater hypersaturated with calcium carbonate. This kind of rock forms the cascades in Croatian Plitvice.

The red color may be from a red loam that is often associated with calcareous tufa.

I used mainly calcareous tufa for two tanks with only a few pieces of live rock and it worked very well, not much different from marine dry rock, maybe even better.

So you are saying that the red ish ones have nothing to do with iron? Also the vendor said it s from Marmara Turkey

And i think i ll give it a shot and see how it is. Anything else i should know ?

 

[Hans-Werner]

So you are saying that the red ish ones have nothing to do with iron? Also the vendor said it s from Marmara Turkey

And i think i ll give it a shot and see how it is. Anything else i should know ?

Sorry, I had some days off. The red color is from soil rich in iron. It is terra rossa which is a soil type found in the Mediterranian region sometimes associated with the calcareous tufa formations. Some parts of the tufa may also be colored rusty brown from iron but it is more or less just a discoloration bound into the rocks, no real problem.