How can I tell if the LFS sold me DEAD Live Rock?

Noah Body wrote:

Thanks for taking a peek at the pics Ric. On the glass was a big " 30
% OFF" sticker and after telling the guy my life story about just getting
into reef tanks, he didn't charge me any tax either.... so I paid $83.00
Canadian for 10.5 pounds of rock. and as far as getting it "lively" .. I can
only assume from you looking at my pics that it's not exactly TEAMING with
life? ..


I looks like what is sold generally as "base rock". But I'll tell you
one thing, you never know
what might pop out of it in the future, even a year or more later. And
after a while with proper CAL
levels you will get coralline on it. And you got plenty of places to
attach corals :-)


"RicSeyler" wrote in message
. ..


I hope you didn't get charged for more than base rock prices....
It's probably live, but not very lively :-)

Noah Body wrote:



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.



http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...3/DSC06243.jpg
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...3/DSC06242.jpg
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...3/DSC06241.jpg
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...3/DSC06239.jpg
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...3/DSC06238.jpg
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...3/DSC06237.jpg
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...3/DSC06236.jpg
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...3/DSC06235.jpg
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...3/DSC06234.jpg
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...3/DSC06232.jpg


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.


Caper




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