Caribsea Dry Live Rock?

[twentyleagues]

Years ago before life rock . There was a lot of people making rocks with Portland concrete , oyster shells and mixing in large pieces or salt that will dissolve to make the rocks porous after cured .

I believe life rock is similar

yup agracrete. Ive made it before thats why I said my busted up life tree looked like it. I made a pillar and a background using egg crate in my 75 I had so long ago. BTW I did manage to recoupe about 50% of the cost of that life tree after a restock fee and return shipping. Never doing that again.

 

[aSaltyKlown]

I think you are referring to ocean live rock which is awesome! I think we need to start calling it “ocean live rock” because people in the hobby have started calling all rock “live rock” (even dry stuff) and it confuses people who don’t know.

It's very annoying that the likes of BRS and other vendors and manufacturers call it dry live rock. It can't be live if it is dry. I refuse to call it ocean, or wet live rock as live rock only comes wet from the ocean, or an established tank/holding tank.

 

[aSaltyKlown]

I think of you don't want to go the ocean rock route, the next best thing is to look online and locally for someone offloading really old rocks from the indo pacific. Example:

Went to a dude's house, picked out a bunch of really cool pieces with holes and shapes and whatnot. This stuff weighs a quarter of a similar size piece of LifeRock, it's so porous (and hard!). You can probably find it on ebay from time to time. Also cost me half or less of what it would cost for similar sizes of LifeRock.

I put it in a tank with some of my ocean rocks from a year old tank and so far so good. Knock on wood.

I'm in the process of this now. Wanted to add some rock to my 40 as I move it to a drilled 40 with sump. Got about 20lbs of old rock from a local reefer. I bleached it and it's been sitting in a tub for about 4 weeks now ready to go in.

 

[twentyleagues]

It's very annoying that the likes of BRS and other vendors and manufacturers call it dry live rock. It can't be live if it is dry. I refuse to call it ocean, or wet live rock as live rock only comes wet from the ocean, or an established tank/holding tank.

I agree. There was a thread not long ago where I believe someone was stating that dry rock can never be considered live rock no matter how long its been submerged. I do not agree with this, I had to "lose" that thread as it was really getting under my skin. Dry rock that is dry is dry rock. Dry rock thats been in a tank for years is live rock. It way not be as diverse (good or bad) as rock from the ocean but its still got bacteria, pods, worms, sponges and whatever else was in that system.