"Live" Sand
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+1...Gprime;4546296; said:
To the OP...I would reverse your priorities. High Quality LR is awesome...and will make for a beautiful and well filtered tank. Live sand on the other hand (that comes in bags from petco ect) is 100% marketing scam.
lulz, yea, thats true. At the same time, mine burrow and dont move until they resurface.Gprime;4546296; said:
Hmm...I have never sat around long enough to witness this. I only see mine like once every month, and I see him all over the place!Heathd;4546910; said:
Only thing about getting live rock is around here it's too expensive. I wouldn't think it would be since Montreal (largest importer of marine live stock around here) is 2 hours away but I guess people like to make more then what they need selling live rock at a ridiculous price of $8-12 a pound. And the cheapest place would be from Big Al's but the 2 locations in my city don't take good care of their marine stock. And the whole hitch hiker thing turns me off of live rock a little bit, never know if you're going to get that one bad piece full of bad worms and what not. I've got 16lbs live rock in my nano tank and was thinking that with maybe about 25-50 lbs of live rock to seed from a local store and then about another 100lbs dry rock from BRS for the 120.
As for the sand, the Big Al's around this area doesn't have dry sand. So only option is getting "live" sand or find a suitable replacement somewhere else which i doubt will happen.
As for the sand, the Big Al's around this area doesn't have dry sand. So only option is getting "live" sand or find a suitable replacement somewhere else which i doubt will happen.
Here's a good link for calculating sand bed depth...
http://www.garf.org/calculators/SandBedCalculator.asp
http://www.garf.org/calculators/SandBedCalculator.asp
