[Shadowfox]

Where is the best place to order live rock? Ay past experience with online vendors? Should I wait till pruess has a new shipment?

 

[Nowas Reef]

a friend just got some from tampabaysaltwater.....said it is amazing stuff...they ship it in a bag of water...he had no dieoff at all...and all sorts of hitchhikers

 

[Shadowfox]

Alot of the feedback mentions mantis shrimp The rock looks great, I'm not liking the fact that they create the rock though. Personally I'd rather have rock that came from the ocean origianlly

 

[Valerys31]

I'ld prefer something that was man made. Keep the live stuff in the ocean. If it looks the same, has lots of life, does what its suppost to. Then great. I've never ordered from them. So, sorry I can't really comment on that.

 

[Preuss Pets]

Speaking of new shipments, we just got in 600lb of Haitian Honeycomb rock, and 600lb of the nicest Tonga branch I've seen in a long time. I think there is around 450lbs left of each. Our 450g African cichlid display is empty and should be out of the shop by friday or saturday, so there will be a shipment of Ponpeii fiji coming in to fill the new tanks! Fairly soon we should go from about 750g of Live rock tanks to around 1250g! If everything goes as planned we hope to carry almost all the time, Tonga, Ponpeii, Haitian, and some of the cultured florida rock. Marshall Islands may be in the mix also depending on demand.

Steve

 

[Shadowfox]

Sounds great! I'm really fortunate that I live close enough to make the trip to lansing.

 

[scleractinian]

Speaking of new shipments, we just got in 600lb of Haitian Honeycomb rock, and 600lb of the nicest Tonga branch I've seen in a long time.
Steve

Hey Steve, just curious (and I can't remember), do you keep the Atlantic and IndoPac rock in different systems? I fully appreciate the practical difficulties that doing so might involve in your case...

I'm curious because I've wanted for several years to try a Caribbean biotope, but have never found anyone other than TBS that could provide rock that hadn't been held w/ Pacific rock.

 

[Preuss Pets]

We currently have 4 seperate live rock systems and with the new additions, we will have 6 or 7 depending on space. They are all seperate systems. The only common element is the blower that feeds the air lifts.

Steve

 

[scleractinian]

That's cool. I'll try to get in this weekend to see all of the changes.

 

[Preuss Pets]

I'll try to have all the changes done by this weekend!

Steve