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My original post was moved to the SW section for some reason. Anyhow, my question originally was if 100+lbs of lace rock for 50$ was a good deal. Greenman responded that it's a decent deal, but of course I'd either a) have to cycle the rock to clear any dead/remaining bacteria or b) clean the rock excessively. The rock was previously live rock in a 125G salt tank, but has been out of the tank for a good deal now, and is no longer live. There is also a good amount of sand available, but ask GreenMan suggested, it may hold on to bacteria for a longer period of time, does anyone have experience with that? I can get some crushed coral and PFS and blend it together fine if not, but figured since I was getting the rock may as well take the sand with me if it can work.

This rock would be going in to a 55gallon tank that I'm currently planning on housing mbuna's with. Egg crate base, form the rock in to the shapes and caves I want, silicone them together.. maybe used some pvc pipe and silicone the rocks around the pipe to give a few more added hiding places, then putting a crushed coral/sand substrate on top of the rock/crate so about 1-1.5" of rock would be under the substrate, hopefully preventing any rocks from moving a great deal.

Thanks for any advice/suggestions.

Gunnie

Send Dino a pm on this one. He has bought different types of rock in bulk and might be able to help you!

steveangela1

I was going to say get some limestone, but you live in florida... Us tn people I know have free acess to an unlimited supply of it... I brought home buckets of it and all differnt colors out of the rivers/ and the lakes from my area and some sandstone. for my malawi tanks...
That is a good price for the lace rock.... I put all of my rocks in bleach for about an hour then scrubbed them really good rinsed good and boiled for about 20 min and rinsed again... then I put them in my tank for over a week way before my fish... I have had no problem w/ mine. I also used the crushed coral and mixed sand w/ it. they love the substrate... they dig and dig in it all the time.. .

Dino

Yes, that is a good price.