Recent content by firemouthkeeper

The lime stone in the dads back yard looks good and the rip rap at the local yard looks like its all lime. I'll just pick up a truck full and start cleaning it. You think a chlorine bath over nite will get rid of the "unwanteds" then putting it in a big bucket one nite with a heavy dose of...

Yeah the stuff I've found wasn't actually in the swamps but I've seen stuff dug up along 27 that was all white very porous, light, and had shell inprints in the chunks. They sell stuff at some of the landscape supply yards called rip rap that comes from the Miami quarries. Sounds like it may...

I was wondering if the base rock for sale (sometimes up to $5/lb) is the same stuff I see being dug up all up and down Florida. Are there any reasons not to use the free stuff? Some of what I have seen out in the glades looks better than what's for sale. This will be my first jump into salt...

Thanks everybody. Your all very welcoming, its nice to be part of a kind community.:thanks:

As the name suggests I have a number of Firemouth cichilids, housed in a lightly planted 55g tank. I also have a 20g qt and 2 10 gallon tanks one for fiddler crabs and one for mbuna fry (from my bother in-law). In the future I plan on starting a salt water fowlr. (we all know how plans go)...