Marco rocks pros and cons ?

[Yanir34]

Hello , anyone can share his experience with this rocks ?

 

[ShakeyGizzard]

your going to get a lot of folks giving positive and negative posts on this. Dry rock has a lot of positive things going on and some negative. You can design and make your aquascape to what ever you desire, and it will be solid and stable (no falling apart) . a con of dry rock is your cycle will be slightly longer, your ugly stage can be more intense. Along with slightly longer time until stable. With that being said, you also have the ability to control unwanted parasites, algae, and other unwanted wildlife. Live rock just has more biome already on the rock, which aids in the tank cycle and speed to maturity. If you are looking for an exact style and shape aquascape, it will be tough to do with live rock. When you add live rock you also add what ever is on the rock, if you see those posts about "what is this" they used live rock. You can add some of the unwanted parasites, crabs, corals, anemones, algae, etc. that came on the live rock.

 

[DmitryB]

I initially purchased a lot of LifeRock, then saw Marco's in person and I must say it looks much more realistic than LifeRock. I wish I'd gone with Marco's to supplement my fully live rock.

 

[Project1004]

I’ve used dry Marco rocks very first time I got into saltwater hobby.

Having Marco rocks for close to 10yrs, I didn’t start with Marco rocks this time around.

My personal opinion of Marco rock are:

-it’s ugly and bulky. It’s hard to aquascape with.

But most concerning to me was that it was so porous. So it takes “forever” for it to be filled with whatever is needed to be filled into those holes and gaps. And it’s not always good stuff that gets trapped in there. Guaranty forever detritus..
So it will take long time for it to get to maturity.
That’s my main reason I went with cribsea rocks that are more natural looking and less porous. I think it was much easier to get it to settle.

I only have old photos I took out from the laptop. -.-;

But the rocks were pretty much stack and be done type.

My old 120.

 

[ShakeyGizzard]

If you are aiming for a more particular shape or style aquascape, you will need to break the larger dry rock up to be able to make your scape the way you want it. there is no limit to the shape, size or design when using dry rock. My first tank used "live" rock from the LFS. yes, it comes with increased biome levels, but every time you add a frag, snail, crab or a fish, you add to your biome.

 

[Waters]

I start all my tanks with marco dry rock.....sometimes seeded with one or two pieces of live rock in the sump. I like the ease of aquascaping and building using the light porous rock.....plus I know what is going in the tank....at least in the beginning lol.