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Anything that cand hold a tank of equal weight will hold your cube.

herplover22 wrote: wants $18 a lb

i will try to find some ro/di water around some where can you buy it from any stores?

18$ a pound!?!?!? that better come covered in corals! Where are you from? In the san francisco bay area where I live its not uncommon to see sales like "Premium Fiji Fully Cured Live Rock $3.99/lb " pulled off of craigslist a few min ago, and thats newly shipped rock. I would NOT buy it for any more than maybe 8$ a pound and thats even steep. I got my mix of fiji and tampa bay salt water for 4-5.50$ a pound. It might be worth while to drive kinda far to find a better LFS or deal.

Your best bet for water is the water jug refill machines they have at supermarkets, the ones that you can bring a 5g jug to and put some quarters in to get water. If your only dealing with 10gallons of tank, get two jugs so you can have enough for top off and water change.

ok thanks

so just get distilled water from those filler stations?

i might have heard him wrong and he may have said $8 a lb but i am sure he said 18

he can be a bit on the expensive side sometimes anyway i will also call another lps in my area to see what their prices are on live rock and i will call back the other guy too and see if i heard him correctly or not lol

i am from ohio by the way

thanks

its not distilled, should be drinking water, the ones around here are actually a automated reverse osmosis. Some machines are serviced more than others, so if you have an algae outbreak, make sure to test the water you are getting.

herplover22 wrote:ok thanks

so just get distilled water from those filler stations?

i might have heard him wrong and he may have said $8 a lb but i am sure he said 18

he can be a bit on the expensive side sometimes anyway i will also call another lps in my area to see what their prices are on live rock and i will call back the other guy too and see if i heard him correctly or not lol

i am from ohio by the way

thanks

If he is selling it for 18 dollars a pound, and there is no one else within the area you can purchase live rock from, just buy a single piece of live rock encrusted nicely with some coralline algae. Then, just buy base rock; you can get this off of ebay. Place the piece of coralline covered live rock on top of your base rock, and the coralline will eventually spread to the base rock thereby turning it into live rock. Just make sure your water parameters are in check.

for 18$ a pound you might as well buy off the internet and sell the extra locally, or maybe set up a group buy.

^^^. Buy off of liveaquaria. They have the best deals for a mainstream dealer.

Yeah! I did some comparison shopping, and if I don't find any locally (not much around here), that's where I'm getting mine.