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Old August 16th 06, 10:20 PM posted to rec.aquaria.marine.reefs
Cindy
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Default How can I tell if the LFS sold me DEAD Live Rock?

* Noah Body wrote, On 8/15/2006 9:15 AM:
Okay .. I have just learned how to put pics on a website and add URL's to
them so that you can click on them. . . and I thought I knew everything.
... anyway's .. here's the links to the pics for my live rock.


Good job. Maybe someday I'll learn how to do that....
Not too lively, is it...but nice-shaped pieces!

PS: the water level is low in the pic because I am doing a water change and
can't find the salt to make up some more.. so I'm off to the LFS now. Also
.. I just put in a powerhead and it just blasted into the crushed coral,
sending a covering of white "sand" all over my live rock, so now I have to
shake it off of everything. Does this happen to other setup's? ... I feel
like I should have washed all the fine's out of the coral before putting it
in ... if I distrub the bed in the slightest .. I get white crushed coral
all over everything .... which I don't like.


Yeah, rinse, rinse and rinse again. Even rinse SAND. I set up a 150 FO tank
years and years ago using crushed oyster shell from a feed store over an
under-gravel filter.
Rinsed it outside in winter in Montana, froze my FINGERS off, among other
things. What a mess. Stuff compacted nastily, too, but I had a nice
well-buffered healthy tank for a long time.

Cindy