The question is: Setting up a 108 gallon reef,,,,dont have the bucks to plug it with live rock,,,,so i wa thinking of addind abot 65 lbs to satart and adding a little at a time to get to the 1-1.5 lbs per gallon,,,if i add corals at some point can i move the corals as i add more live rock????
live rock and corals ??
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Well, if the corals grow onto the live rock, then you'll have to move the coral with the rock. However, your plan of starting with 65 ilbs and building it up from there should work there, however, you could save some money and go with the 65 ilbs live and the rest "dead" or base rock (or anything similar) and end up with the same final result.
ditto with dorkfish. you dont need to go all live at once, you could even go with less live and more base rock to save more money.
It does take 6 months or so to grow coraline and all the little inverts but, it'll only take it a little while 4-6 weeks to grow bacteria. If you put it at the middle of your pile you won't notice anyway. The bacteria is what you need to keep your water quality good just stock slowly .
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Chris
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Just use dry coral rubble avail at most lfs or lace rock if you can't get dried coral. Really Calcium carbonate based rock will work the more porus the better.
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Max
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I have had good experience with this guy. Sea Life Florida The prices aren't bad... $2.00/lb for base rock adn $3.50 for live rock. I bought 12 lbs live from him for my 10g tank and it was almost fully covered in coralline, the rocks were light and super porous. They came with lots of macro algae growing as well as a couple emerald crabs, feather dusters,a bunch of good worms, etc... There were even some live clams/oysters and a couple montipora corals.
I agree with everyone else. You deffinitely don't need to get 100 lb+ of good live rock, especially when some of it will never be seen... 65lb live + another 40-50 of base-type rock would be a great start. Don't forget that later on you'll probably see some rocks you like in stores and will probably buy corals that are attached to rocks too, so you dont' necessarily fill the whole thing up to the max right away.
I agree with everyone else. You deffinitely don't need to get 100 lb+ of good live rock, especially when some of it will never be seen... 65lb live + another 40-50 of base-type rock would be a great start. Don't forget that later on you'll probably see some rocks you like in stores and will probably buy corals that are attached to rocks too, so you dont' necessarily fill the whole thing up to the max right away.