I Bet Your Tank ROCKS! Are you using live or dry rock in your aquarium?

[AlyciaMarie]

Unless you live under a rock like my grumpy goby, you know that there are some pretty big differences between live and dry rock. Many of us can agree that there can be pros and cons to both, but everyone's loyalty lies somewhere. Where does yours lie? Live rock or dry rock?

Are you using live rock or dry rock in your tank?

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

I feel pretty confident Ill always have a strong bias towards live rock, either natural from the ocean or maricultured in the ocean.

 

[randomfishdude]

Dry at first. Got some live from lfs. Looking to get some Florida live soon.

 

[DanyL]

Never used anything else but real Indonesian live rock, from the good era when they were available 15+ years ago.

 

[Dburr1014]

Both.

Some live rock from various places and LFS and dry rock.

 

[paragrouper]

60% live, 40% dry.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

What is once dry shall become live, a rock is just a rock

 

[randomfishdude]

What is once dry shall become live, a rock is just a rock

Some rocks are specaillll

 

[exnisstech]

I voted other. My first tank was started with live ocean rock. My last two tanks were started with dry rock in the display and live rock in the sump. This is the sump of my newest tank started in March. So far I've not had any nuisance algae in the display using this method.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Some rocks are specaillll

 

[Waters]

99% dry with one or two pieces of live from my previous tanks that I throw in the sump.

 

[1ocean]

Dry rock cemented together in the 300G with 100 pounds of Florida Live rock in the sump from a person who had the live rock in their sump before his tear down.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

In my main tank? Dry rock from CaribSea. My pico tank? TambaBay Saltwater Live rock

 

[shakacuz]

i started with "seeded" dry rock. overtime swapped smaller pieces from other tanks, and added biomedia from TSA and sand from aquabiomics.

 

[corosato]

A mix or Dry Marco and Gulf Live Rock. More Dry than Live, but wanted the extra diversity. and apparently the multitudes of mantis shrimps

 

[lil sumpin]

Started cycling with about 11lbs of caribsea 'liferock' and eventually added 3lbs of LR rubble acquired from established tanks. The rubble had sponges, aiptasia, ball anemones, pods, little bits of coralline and hair algae. I was happy to get all of that, even the aiptasia which quickly grew from pin size to a quarter size

 

[AlyciaMarie]

I voted other. My first tank was started with live ocean rock. My last two tanks were started with dry rock in the display and live rock in the sump. This is the sump of my newest tank started in March. So far I've not had any nuisance algae in the display using this method.

What is that orange stuff growing on the rock in the bottom right corner? I recently got some live rock and I have some of it as well.

 

[exnisstech]

What is that orange stuff growing on the rock in the bottom right corner? I recently got some live rock and I have some of it as well.

Some type of sponge. I run it as a cryptic fuge so it's not lit. There is some cool stuff growing in there.

 

[fish farmer]

Both. Some of my live rock I've had wet since 2000. The most recent live rock piece was from 2004, Fiji, handpicked at a Connecticut store that is no longer in business. It still has a couple of tube worms living in the rock.

 

[alfieohalfie]

My tank is roughly 8 months old. I started with both. Dry display and live in sump. While acquiring everything else: lights, skimmer, controller. I still let the tank do its thing for about 2-3 months. Why rush? I have some sps frags that are doing great and some growth and maybe one or 2 not doing so great but on a path to recovery.