LR LS bacteria question

After setting up several hundred of not thousand's of marine tanks I have to date never found a need to use anything alive to start my systems I won't use it . Just get a cup of live sand or rubble from a trusted source to avoid pest and pestilence

 

Live Rock Hitch Hikers

follow this link and scroll to algae and read on coraline. According to this page there are more than one type of coraline also...

 

I used all base rock and all dry sand when setting mine up and did not add any live sand or rock to it. The only thing i added that would have had any life would have been my cheato and corals that i bought that were attached to rocks. My rocks are considered live now i guess but that was over a yr ago.

 

They are plants if you include all algaes in your definition of plants. Coraline algae belong to the class Rhodophyceae or "Red Algae."

Introduction to the Rhodophyta

 

All I had was about 25lbs of base rock and salt water, that's it. There is not need for anything live to start out with.