Hi,
I started my first tank in February. I bought some cheap man-made rock from amazon when I set it up. Now I realize that was a mistake as the rock is crumbling apart. I glued the pieces together with some putty I bought at LFS, that worked fine but the rock is slowly falling apart into silt, especially when my pencil urchin gnaws at it. I don't have any recent pics, here's what it looked like at the beginning.
The smaller rockpile on the left came loose last night, my pencil urchin knocked it apart, rock fell on him and took down a couple frags I put there.
I need to replace the rock, I was thinking of re-doing the left side first, then worry about the larger piece. It's going to be a pain because I need to evict my BTA which just started to host a clownfish.
My question is, is this common with man-made rock or did I just pick the wrong ones? I'm not sure if I need to buy live rock at LFS for 8-10 bucks a pound or is the dry rock from BRS ok to use? I just do not want to repeat my mistake. Thanks for any advice.
I started my first tank in February. I bought some cheap man-made rock from amazon when I set it up. Now I realize that was a mistake as the rock is crumbling apart. I glued the pieces together with some putty I bought at LFS, that worked fine but the rock is slowly falling apart into silt, especially when my pencil urchin gnaws at it. I don't have any recent pics, here's what it looked like at the beginning.
The smaller rockpile on the left came loose last night, my pencil urchin knocked it apart, rock fell on him and took down a couple frags I put there.
I need to replace the rock, I was thinking of re-doing the left side first, then worry about the larger piece. It's going to be a pain because I need to evict my BTA which just started to host a clownfish.
My question is, is this common with man-made rock or did I just pick the wrong ones? I'm not sure if I need to buy live rock at LFS for 8-10 bucks a pound or is the dry rock from BRS ok to use? I just do not want to repeat my mistake. Thanks for any advice.