20 gallon saltwater??

[DustinKeating]

The only fish i have right now are 2 false percs and one scooter blenny. I'm more enthusiastic about corals, so i went with cheesy nemo's and the scooter for onlookers to enjoy. I'll be tearing the tank down and moving it to a 27g soon for my girlfriend to look after. Kinda sucks tearing it down, but it's fun to start over too.

(sorry to whomever started this thread, i had no intentions of hijacking it)

 

[Sandtiger]

I did, and that's O.K, I am learning and I like that!
As for the live rock, could I do something with regular rock to mimic the look of live rock? Is there somewhere I could buy or order coldwater live rock?

 

[OCCFan023]

I did, and that's O.K, I am learning and I like that!
As for the live rock, could I do something with regular rock to mimic the look of live rock?

I have no idea how you could mimic the look of live rock its very unique imo.

 

[wayne]

You could just use base rock, and see it with some rock from a rock pool. You're after bacteria, plus pods, plus anything else that will survive. You could jsut collect rocks from the beach, but they may well have terrible porosity/survace texture for growing bacteria on, depending on your local geology.
The above of course depends on your local collection laws.

I have been tempted by this as we have pipefish locally here, which would be cool to keep, breed.

 

[KahluaZzZ]

travertine rock is very porous and therefore more adequate than baserock to sustain bacterias

 

[Sandtiger]

I was thinking of pumic, would that work?