Live Rock/Sand?

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No way Jose. Not unless it was rock from an estuary that enjoyed the constantly changing salinity. Same goes with the live sand. What you will find 99% of the time is LS and LR that requires a SG of about 1.026. A far cry from 1.010 or there about.

I think many of us would have already had LR and LS in our Bracks if that were the case.

Actually, with all of the algea growth in my tank I would say the whole tank is live!!! :D

I just read the info on the link and I would have to reiterate, the LR would have to come from an estuary. I don't believe any critters/algae on marine LR would make it in brackish water.
 
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yshurtleff

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actually you can.I have live rock and live sand in my brackish if my scats every let the stuff grow or should I say after I bring it home with the long green vines they eat it instantly...anyway I run a 1.021 so its very heavy but my puffers enjoy it so does my orange cromide and of course the scats,and the turbo snail...good luck...:D
 

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Turbo snails are Brackisk????!!!??

I neeed algae eaters that are too big for the puff to snack on



I never even considered live rock in my tank but that would be nice to have if it would work i usually run my tank light around .006
 

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no turbo snails are salt but I through one in to help clean the algea and he has very well ... but remember I run a 1.021 so its only .003 away from being salt but it is still brackish
 
Uhhm....actually, I believe anything above 1.019 is full marine. The LFSs around here run their tanks at 1.019 and 1.024 and above for the LR and corals.

I read something funny today but unfortunately I forgot what sight it came from. The author stated that knight gobies were brackish, but that's not the funny part. He did however give it a totally different name. But that wasn't the funny part either. He stated that knight gobies are bottom dwellers :eek: (not mine.)He then preceded to say that adding 1 (yes ONE) tablespoon (yes again TABLESPOON!!) of salt to 5 gallons of water was to be deemed brackish! :eek: WOW!!!! Now I gotta sit here and wonder which one of you is pulling my leg. :D

But, yshurtleff, your live rock would do much better if you got rid of the scats and puffers. LOL!!! I guess that means get different fish.
 

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Perfect live sand for a brackish tank would be from a intercoastal water way (near a river mouth that empties into the ocean). North Carolina to Florida to Texas. There are a bunch of brackish water ways that empty into the ocean. There you would get the right animals for the invironment.

I was wondering about that nasty little shellfish the zebra mussel. I only thing I think could be bad is the mussels getting into the filtration. Other than that they filter the water.
 
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