125 Lbs. of KP Live Rock on airplane now.
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Gotboostedvr6
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Fun thread!
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monkeyCmonkeyDo
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Looks great!
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Just to confirm. How many total pounds do you have in the 1800? I have a 1200 waiting.The coralline is spreading very quickly. Supplementing with Red Sea KH Coralline Gro. Very happy.
Defiantly spend the extra cost for it being shipped in water. Well worth it. Did 3 large water changes in 5 days. Ammonia went to 0 and No3 was 5 on the 6th day.
Sleeping Giant
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Looks great
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That is 205 lbs. First shipment was 125, second was 80.
Now a few months in how is everything doing? My 1200 just arrived but wont be setup will September. Any updates? New pics of growth? Thanks!
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Pink, Red and Purple coralline everywhere. A few urchins . Lots of crabs. 1 Gorilla crab I am trying to catch. Very happy. I basically just wanted coralline.
I dose Red Sea KH Coralline Grow daily and that is it. Sorry for the bright pics. Still learning how to operate new camera.
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Did you go through any ugly phase to talk about?
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No not really. I have 20-25 snails. I did get real thick dark brown fur on the back glass. Scrapped it off. Typical brown dust on the sand bed. Sand shifter takes care of that. Shipped in water cycled in 6 days with 3 large water changes.
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Yep, definitely the way to go. Can't wait to get my big tank up and going.
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Absolutely Beautiful! I've never considered dry rock and this is why....the natural beauty is unparalleled and light years easier to cycle. Can't wait to pick up live rock in Sept. Great pics!Pink, Red and Purple coralline everywhere. A few urchins . Lots of crabs. 1 Gorilla crab I am trying to catch. Very happy. I basically just wanted coralline.
I dose Red Sea KH Coralline Grow daily and that is it. Sorry for the bright pics. Still learning how to operate new camera.
With all the biodiversity you rarely see dino's or other nuisance critters in tanks set up with live rock.
tautog83
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Probably some random fish deaths from the 4 ft bobbitt that was probably in there lol I'm kidding well kind of ..lol original rock looked amazing but I just get so nervous about pests
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I do not know why, I have been in the hobby almost 35 years and most of those years I used live rock. There are more pest in the hobby now than back then. Difference is live rock had tons of stuff fighting for space on that rock. Now you get something like vermetid snails and their is all this bare rock to colonize. Most of the pests you need to remove on real live rock like mantis or crabs are easy to remove. Lets see now things like bubble algae, vermetid snails, dinoflagellates run wild and because nothing to compete against them. I would rather catch a harry crab than fight vermetid snails. We had them back then they just never got to the plague size they get now. You have a vermetid snail spawn and they are like look at all this bare rock to settle and look nothing to eat us. All those other little critters we got would eat most the planula that settled.
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No 4 footers but some nasty one. I think I have got them all.
The red crab had about a 6 inch wingspan. Took about 6 months but I got all of those also.
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