Best Fake Rock Brand

[izzyishh]

Just what it says getting pieces to start the new upgrade I will be going with Fake rock to avoid hitchhikers. What is the best brand for fake rock read good things about " Real Reef Rock" "Carib Sea" and "Brs Pukini" let me know your experience and suggestions thank you!

 

[izzyishh]

#reefsquad gathering the best minds lol

 

[Brew12]

#reefsquad gathering the best minds lol

Well, my mind isn't the best, but I will share my opinion. You are looking for dry rock, right? Not necessarily the fake, man made stuff?
I went with dry rock from Reef Cleaners (link) and I was very happy with it. It was also tough to beat for the price.

 

[melypr1985]

My 75 was put together using all Real Reef Rock. I loved it. Looks amazing from start to finish. I'm still using some of it in the new build. I also ordered from Marco Rocks and used their dry florida rock for the new build. I like it quite a bit too.

 

[izzyishh]

I was looking into just dry rock @Brew12 but kinda like the purple "coraline" on the fake stuff but im open to dry rock!
@melypr1985 i had no idea you are local in the DFW! so any issues with the real reef rock? any flaking of the purple ? any ph issues with it?

 

[melypr1985]

@melypr1985 i had no idea you are local in the DFW! so any issues with the real reef rock? any flaking of the purple ? any ph issues with it?

Yup! We may have even met at some point at the store. I never had a single issue with the rocks. PH was/is always rock steady (knocks on wood) and the purple only got better as real coraline covered over the fake color. Their rocks are all a little different even with the colors so it's not all uniform and fake looking. The one thing that's not too awesome is that if you break a rock it's obviously white on that broken edge, but will quickly be covered over in real coraline.

 

[Midrats]

I second the Reefcleaners rock if you want dead rock. Hitchhikers aren't scary on Florida live rock. The stuff I got recently from TBS looks just like Reefcleaners rock except covered with life. A couple of unwanted crabs are easy to pick out. I never understood the whole hitchhiker argument. In thirty years of reefing I've never had an issue with live rock.

 

[Milktooth]

Well, my mind isn't the best, but I will share my opinion. You are looking for dry rock, right? Not necessarily the fake, man made stuff?
I went with dry rock from Reef Cleaners (link) and I was very happy with it. It was also tough to beat for the price.

Looks great. What size tank is that and how many lbs. of rock did you purchase? Did you glue pieces together or just set and let gravity do the rest?

 

[Brew12]

Looks great. What size tank is that and how many lbs. of rock did you purchase? Did you glue pieces together or just set and let gravity do the rest?

Thanks. It is a 120g, 72" long tank. I purchased 150 lbs of rock and used about 120 lbs. The bottom pieces are just gravity but I did use some putty to hold together the top pieces. Nothing elaborate.

 

[izzyishh]

@melypr1985 yeah i dont doubt that we have met do you do discount orders or just buy from your spot?

@squareriggersailor i just want the new upgrade to be perfect im fighting blue polyps and a few other hitchhikers i got from real rock so this time i just want to avoid it all together.

 

[Midrats]

@melypr1985 yeah i dont doubt that we have met do you do discount orders or just buy from your spot?

@squareriggersailor i just want the new upgrade to be perfect im fighting blue polyps and a few other hitchhikers i got from real rock so this time i just want to avoid it all together.

I feel you. None of the common Indo species of pests live in the Gulf FYI. Dry rock is cool if you don't mind waiting. As far as aquascaping with Reefcleaners rock putty is hardly needed unless you are defying gravity with your structure. The stuff goes together like Legos.

 

[GatorScott]

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[cbutkos]

I started out with reefcleaners rock and really love it, extremely porous and pretty jagged allowing rocks to lock together well. If i were to do it again i would probably go with tampabaysaltwater. It comes to you already purple and has a ton of cool stuff and life on it, i know this is another post of exactly the opposite of what you were looking for but its definitely worth a look, all of the forums have a TBS thread and if you go look i think it'll make a believer out of you, and if you look at the comments/reviews on the threads i don't think there's one unhappy customer, thats gotta count for something

 

[melypr1985]

yeah i dont doubt that we have met do you do discount orders or just buy from your spot?

Mostly I just buy from my own store. If I want something else, I tend to just order online, but that's usually just things that we can't get in.

 

[izzyishh]

@cbutkos what is TBS ill go check out the rock now see what i think of it

 

[izzyishh]

@cbutkos lol im dumb ignore what i said where can i buy TBS?

 

[izzyishh]

yeah just checked it out seems cool but not much coraline on the pictures they have

 

[cbutkos]

yeah just checked it out seems cool but not much coraline on the pictures they have

Check this thread
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2621797

Iits not bright purple, but much nicer than white rock, unless you're looking for super purple

 

[FirstContact]

I saw a lot of fake rock at MACNA 2015. I thought the best was Caribsea's.

 

[izzyishh]

@cbutkos boooooooooooyyyyyyyyy got a mantis shrimp bye felicia lol looks good non the less but idk im not 100 sold yet