MMLR stuff in San Antonio

[bfoleyiii]

I am looking to set up a tank a bit down the road and figure I can look at making some rock to save a bit of money and I had a few questions:

1) I have not found any inexpesive sources of aragonite sand/gravel and wonder if anyone in SA has? If not what have you all used? I am thinking I might just check out a couple of feed stores for some crushed oyster shell or CC as the reading I've done indicates it will work well.

2) Will the water I use for the Kure be ok to use on my lawn/trees, (I know if I use salt it wont really be a good idea), or will the water jack up my lawn/trees?

3) If the water I change out is ok for plants I wont be using salt. Anyone have some other ideas what I can add that will disolve out ok to add some surface area and wont be harmfull to plants? I guess I could just dump the first water change and hope the salt is gone and use the rest to water.

After I get the MMLR ready to go in a tank I am thinking I'll still have some time before I actually get a setup in the house going but dont want to just let it sit so I am thinking I'll get it going in bin with some sand to get stuff growing. What kind of light and filtration will just the rock and sand need? I dont expect it would need much but would rather double check.

Thanks for any assistance,

Bob

[rz1a]

i think you should look into getting rock from www.marcorocks.com (http://www.marcorocks.com) youll have to cycle it in some containers before putting them into the tank to make sure all levels are good. i think theyve got good prices

if you make the live rock i dont think itll be as porous as the real thing, and itll weigh a lot more

[LoneStar]

1) I have not found any inexpesive sources of aragonite sand/gravel and wonder if anyone in SA has? If not what have you all used? I am thinking I might just check out a couple of feed stores for some crushed oyster shell or CC as the reading I've done indicates it will work well.

You can get crushed oyster shell at Lockhill Feed off of Huebner.