Online live rock

wrote:
Its going to need a bunch of live rock, and I'm
probably going to have to mail order it because I live in a small,
isolated town without a LFS.

I bought one order of "Tonga Deepwater" from Drs. Foster and Smith and one order
of uncured Tonga rock from Premium Aquatics. The "Tonga Deepwater" comes in 30
pound lots. I was (and still am) very pleased with mine. All large pieces, just
as advertised. The stuff from Premium Aquatics was also as advertised, but it
had a few pounds of rubble and more small pieces than the F&S product. I
complained here at the time about the amount of rubble and small pieces, but the
small pieces got chucked in the tank anyway. The PA product also was wrapped in
Asian newspaper, having been shipped to me directly from the dock in California.
I consider that a plus, since there's a better chance of hitchhikers that way.

I just checked their site, and Premium Aquatics is sold out of their Tonga rock.
They've also increased their prices a bit, but they have a discount on shipments
of 40 pounds or more.

I would not hesitate to order from either company again. In fact, if I were
setting up a tank from scratch, I would probably buy all the rock from Premium
Aquatics; it's hard to beat $3.99/lb for Tonga rock.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

I agree with George. Premium Aquatics has nice rock and is a good place to
order from. I've ordered several times from them. Their rock has much more
life form than my local fish store. I was always happy with it.

Susan
"George Patterson" wrote in message
news:uwYFh.274$NA4.178@trnddc07...
wrote:
Its going to need a bunch of live rock, and I'm
probably going to have to mail order it because I live in a small,
isolated town without a LFS.

I bought one order of "Tonga Deepwater" from Drs. Foster and Smith and one
order of uncured Tonga rock from Premium Aquatics. The "Tonga Deepwater"
comes in 30 pound lots. I was (and still am) very pleased with mine. All
large pieces, just as advertised. The stuff from Premium Aquatics was also
as advertised, but it had a few pounds of rubble and more small pieces
than the F&S product. I complained here at the time about the amount of
rubble and small pieces, but the small pieces got chucked in the tank
anyway. The PA product also was wrapped in Asian newspaper, having been
shipped to me directly from the dock in California. I consider that a
plus, since there's a better chance of hitchhikers that way.

I just checked their site, and Premium Aquatics is sold out of their Tonga
rock. They've also increased their prices a bit, but they have a discount
on shipments of 40 pounds or more.

I would not hesitate to order from either company again. In fact, if I
were setting up a tank from scratch, I would probably buy all the rock
from Premium Aquatics; it's hard to beat $3.99/lb for Tonga rock.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

Yeah----thats the same guy I got from.

You cant beat $2.19 a pound.



I used this guy to buy 30#:
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmrmarine

He's in florida as am I and it showed up in 24 hours. I'd find somebody
close to you, so it doesn't rot in shipment.

Here's another in California:
http://stores.ebay.com/My-Reef-Zone

--Kurt

Reel McKoi wrote:

Oh, because we did add an extra support under the floor for our two 55g
tanks. They cross the joists so the load is spread out along the one
wall. The heavy crossbeam is what we supported. No sagging so far.


Hmmmm....and care to tell the reef group what these 55 gall tanks
contain?....IIRC Platys and/or fancy goldfish.....do you have any
experience of the additional weight load put into a tank by the addition
of live rock?????......generally it is around 1lb per gall......woops,
should have let you find that one out for yourself.....

"Gill Passman" wrote in message
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Reel McKoi wrote:

Oh, because we did add an extra support under the floor for our two 55g
tanks. They cross the joists so the load is spread out along the one
wall. The heavy crossbeam is what we supported. No sagging so far.


Hmmmm....and care to tell the reef group what these 55 gall tanks
contain?....IIRC Platys and/or fancy goldfish.....do you have any
experience of the additional weight load put into a tank by the addition
of live rock?????......generally it is around 1lb per gall......woops,
should have let you find that one out for yourself.....
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That's irrelevant to how much weight a floor can take without extra
supports.
--
RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
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With or without live rock, it's still true. Stop
trolling the trolls.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Gill Passman wrote on 3/4/2007 5:59 PM:
Reel McKoi wrote:

Oh, because we did add an extra support under the floor for our two
55g tanks. They cross the joists so the load is spread out along the
one wall. The heavy crossbeam is what we supported. No sagging so far.


Hmmmm....and care to tell the reef group what these 55 gall tanks
contain?....IIRC Platys and/or fancy goldfish.....do you have any
experience of the additional weight load put into a tank by the addition
of live rock?????......generally it is around 1lb per gall......woops,
should have let you find that one out for yourself.....

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 01:27:40 -0600, "Reel McKoi"
puked up some crap like:


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That's irrelevant to how much weight a floor can take without extra
supports.

STFU CArol Gulley your a freaking moron and a dancing puppet. Now give
us all a pole dance there Carol the Troll Meister

My god carol put some clothes on, do you want to make all these folks
go blind? Dance you moron dance!

Then again these jerks in the reef group love all the
attention...bunch of baby morons from the spawn of Carol Gulley!





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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!