Live Rock Scam

I believe these same guys got robbed big time last year. I remember reading in the local paper that tons of their rock was stolen from the areas it was becoming "live". Apparently, they had beds of base rock becoming live when someone came in at night maybe even multiple times and stole it.

Personally, I'd steer clear of the LR from my back yard. It's full of aptasia, crabs and thumb splitters.

Base rock with a dash of LR from an existing tank will be the route I take next.



Found this.

"Sometime in the past 18 months, Miami boat captain Neal Novak told investigators someone stole about 300,000 pounds of decorative live rock he had planned to harvest for saltwater aquariums and reef tanks at his aqua farm three miles off Islamorada.

Authorities are taking the case seriously.

”As far as I know, this is a first in the Keys,” said officer Bobby Dube, spokesman for the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission for more than 20 years. “We’ve caught people bringing in live rock, but not stealing from someone’s aqua farm.”

 

Also notice that they received the rock on Friday and are already complaining of no email response by Tuesday.

 

In the immortal words of Commander Shepard- "Cheaters shouldn't prosper.". Provided of course, that they did in fact cheat you.

 

I'd like to see pics.

Weird that they are too big. I thought 3reef auto sized them.

Try uploading from a share site like photobucket.

 

^^ That.
Not that it's my backyard, but I've heard way too many complaints about "bad" hitchhikers from Florida live rock to ever order any myself.

 

Me too. I am not a fan of 1st post bashing. Closed and will be deleted.