ryshark
Aquarium Advice Addict
I need to make some more rock shelves in my reef tank for new corals. I didn't want to get Live Rock because of the chance of putting something bad into my healthy tank.(Ex. Isopods, spider crabs etc) I have had to deal with lots of bad critters and don't want to ever again. So my first thought was to get some LR and then dip it in a Freshwater/Iodine Dip and that would kill off everything. Then I thought to myself I will be paying $6 a pound for "dead" rock, so I decided to get some dry base rock. I bought some base rock today and I asked the owner of the LFS if the rock came from the ocean and she said, "no it comes from the mountains" She also told me that it is safe for saltwater etc etc. However, I am a little concerned that there could be metal or something in there. I do believe it came from the mountains becaue I can see a couple specs of quartz in it. I don't know if I am being paranoid and I should just put it in the tank, or if I should return it. What would you do? Does anybody know of any good online sites to buy base rock? Thank.