Solga
2 lost souls swimming in a fish bowl ...
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I have done some searching, and can not seem to find an answer for this. Maybe it's that I do not know how to phrase the questions either, but I am going to try to explain my thought process here.
While I have my "down times" during the day and wile I try to go to sleep, my mind goes about 1,000,000 miles an hour, but one thing that I keep circling back to is this:
What would it take to maintain JUST live rock. No fish, No Coral, just the live rock ?
Here is my reasoning for this question. We all start up, and shut down aquariums all of the time an one of the biggest hurdles that I see, is getting a "safe" live rock from somewhere. So let's imagine that I have an empty room (I wish) and in that empty room I had a massive fish pond type container with 500 pounds of dry rock in it. And lets just say that my end goal is to get this rock cycled and keep this rock "alive" for 1 year +, without introducing any coral or fish into the system. Algae would be of no concern. This way, if a friend or club member decides to start up a reef tank, I could give him some of the mature live rock to jump start his/her/their system.
Just something that I have thought of many times....
Anyone have any actual experience with this, or any ideas / theories ?
While I have my "down times" during the day and wile I try to go to sleep, my mind goes about 1,000,000 miles an hour, but one thing that I keep circling back to is this:
What would it take to maintain JUST live rock. No fish, No Coral, just the live rock ?
Here is my reasoning for this question. We all start up, and shut down aquariums all of the time an one of the biggest hurdles that I see, is getting a "safe" live rock from somewhere. So let's imagine that I have an empty room (I wish) and in that empty room I had a massive fish pond type container with 500 pounds of dry rock in it. And lets just say that my end goal is to get this rock cycled and keep this rock "alive" for 1 year +, without introducing any coral or fish into the system. Algae would be of no concern. This way, if a friend or club member decides to start up a reef tank, I could give him some of the mature live rock to jump start his/her/their system.
Just something that I have thought of many times....
Anyone have any actual experience with this, or any ideas / theories ?