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Old 01-09-2013, 01:46 PM   #467
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My recommendation would be to cruise Craigslist until you come onto a turnkey system from someone getting out of the hobby.

It will cost you about 1/3 as much, most of the parts will be complementary and you'll have someone that will talk you through how they used what they used and why. Oftentimes they'll even be selling off their livestock.

Rock going 'live' means that it populates with the beneficial bacterias, etc... that make it live rock. You can start with porous 'dead' rocks and include just a few hunks of live rock around it. Whatever is living in that rock will spread into the seed rock and turn it into live rock.

The term 'live rock' is something of a misnomer - the rock itself is no more live than it's ever been, it just has a lot of nitrifying bacteria and beneficial pods, etc... that are extremely helpful for the health of a reef tank.
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