tripper
Aquarium Advice Freak
Hey Everyone,
I have to share my experience with my liverocks.com order that I got on Friday. I ordered 30lbs of Gulf Rock to add to my 80lbs of Marshall and Tonga rock that has been in my tank for 8 months. I was most interested in getting some new "critters" in the tank since my original live rock had great shapes and corraline growth, but didn't have a lot of other life that I could see.
I received the shipment at 11:00am on Friday morning and was amazed by the rock. Even though the Gulf Rock typcially isn't as colorful as the Keys, it still had some great corraline growth and interesting shapes. I started to add it to the tank and re-aquascaped.
The best part of this whole experience came once I got most of the rock into the tank. At the bottome of the bag in the shipping box was about a half inch of water and an AMAZING assortment of live critters swimming around!!!! I spend the next 30 mins sorting through all of this and picking out all the critters I wanted to add, and leaving those that I thought might be a problem. I picked out over 10 pistol shrimps of various sizes and colors and added them all to the tank. I also found many small crabs, but only added ones that did not have the pointy claws or were very hairy. I also added 5-10 starfish, the largest one had a main body that was as big as a quarter! It was a fascinating experience. I have a ton of LR in my tank now and I want to get more just for the unpacking experience!
As you can tell, I am a very satisfied customer. The only complaint I had was when I looked that the tank the next day, after the light cycle came on. I had a LOT (40-50) of aiptasias on the rock. Some of them were bigger than I ever imagined they could be! I saw 2 or 3 that were easily 1.5 inches wide at the mouth. Although this was a surprising, I had my Joe's Juice already and the whole population has been eliminated.
So, this was my experience. Another satisfied customer. Sorry to take up so much space, but I had to tell someone about this great LR!!!
tripper
I have to share my experience with my liverocks.com order that I got on Friday. I ordered 30lbs of Gulf Rock to add to my 80lbs of Marshall and Tonga rock that has been in my tank for 8 months. I was most interested in getting some new "critters" in the tank since my original live rock had great shapes and corraline growth, but didn't have a lot of other life that I could see.
I received the shipment at 11:00am on Friday morning and was amazed by the rock. Even though the Gulf Rock typcially isn't as colorful as the Keys, it still had some great corraline growth and interesting shapes. I started to add it to the tank and re-aquascaped.
The best part of this whole experience came once I got most of the rock into the tank. At the bottome of the bag in the shipping box was about a half inch of water and an AMAZING assortment of live critters swimming around!!!! I spend the next 30 mins sorting through all of this and picking out all the critters I wanted to add, and leaving those that I thought might be a problem. I picked out over 10 pistol shrimps of various sizes and colors and added them all to the tank. I also found many small crabs, but only added ones that did not have the pointy claws or were very hairy. I also added 5-10 starfish, the largest one had a main body that was as big as a quarter! It was a fascinating experience. I have a ton of LR in my tank now and I want to get more just for the unpacking experience!
As you can tell, I am a very satisfied customer. The only complaint I had was when I looked that the tank the next day, after the light cycle came on. I had a LOT (40-50) of aiptasias on the rock. Some of them were bigger than I ever imagined they could be! I saw 2 or 3 that were easily 1.5 inches wide at the mouth. Although this was a surprising, I had my Joe's Juice already and the whole population has been eliminated.
So, this was my experience. Another satisfied customer. Sorry to take up so much space, but I had to tell someone about this great LR!!!
tripper
. I got a few small pieces of gulf and two huge chunks of keys, look in my gallery the stuff with the oranges in it too is the stuff I got from them.
