diy live rock

[sly fox]

i thought id put this here rather than continue the discussion in buy/sell

heres a couple of good links

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...readid=1286738

http://www.marshreef.com/modules.php...wtopic&t=25273

I personally dont like mixing salt in tho I made mine on a salt bed, the oyster shell leaves enough spaces that the rock is really porous...

The biggest thing is the curing process, I ended up having to commendere a family bath tub for volume and ease of water changing...i found buckets and polystyrene fish boxes too slow.... what i would recommend is getting a kiddy paddling pool.....sticking a bulkhead in it with hose and valve and run it to a drain, and use a hose to fill you could do that outside as well, so the sun would heat the water increasing the speed

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The nicest looking aragocrete I have ever seen was the rock OU812 here on MAAST made, and was selling awhile back. The pieces shapes were an art form, not just oblong rocks.

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His shapes were nicer than these.

http://www.garf.org/

He was going to do a workshop but no one was interested.

[sly fox]

you mean these ones...

[sly fox]

the rocks look much harsher than before they get a bit of life on them, once they have a bit of life they look better...im not a fan of the rocks on garfs site in shape tbh

one thing id heard was corals wont encrust because of the pH, but I know this isnt true, I was round at a friends house who made some six months ago and his sps were well encrusted onto them!