New to the salt worldq

Thank you very much.

I have been doing a lot of reading and research. I like to get peoples opinions too!

Now you said to get dry rock. I have read to get all live rock. What is the difference and pros/cons between the too.

Next, haha, the RO/DI water. I was looking into a reverse osmosis setup to get the RO/DI water. I think it would be cheaper. Agree?

THANKS!!!;D

 

Dry rock is the same as live rock except for the fact that there isnt any life on it.....yet. With time dry rock will become alive and colorfull making your tank awesome while filtering it. Dry rock can cost around 2 - 3 dollars per pound while live rock can be around 8 to 12 dollars per pound. What I did was i bought mostly dry rock and topped it with a piece of live rock to seed the life off of it onto the dry rock.

 

Oh ok sounds good thanks

 

There can be a big difference between live rock and dry rock in terms of biodiversity. It is true that dry rock will become live over a period of time and perform well for filtration. But if you think about how much diversity there is in the ocean, I think one of the things we should be trying to accomplish in our tanks is increasing the biodiversity as much as possible. Good live rock will come with a huge amount of diverse lifeforms on it. Where dry rock will become live the lifeforms that inhabit it will be what was already in your tank. Live rock will introduce new life and increase biodiversity.

I had the privilege to meet Anthony Calfo and Eric Borneman at a local frag swap and both were advocating occasionally adding/swapping in fresh live rock into our systems to help ensure the biodiversity stays high. They claimed that over a period of time many life forms (many that we cannot see) will perish in our systems and diversity will decrease. Makes sense to me so I figured I'd pass it along.

 

Awesome! A friend of mine I talked to today actually basically told me the same thing that they use all live rock because of the different things that come in with them. Thank you very much!