where do u guys buy liverock?

[twistedimage92]

fish store price is 5.99. 4.50 if i get a lot
online is like 3.25 a pound... but i am afraid that i will get poor liverock... where did u guys get your rock?

 

[aresgod]

how much are you buying? I always try to stay local if I can, but LR is like 8-9$ a pound at my lfs. there are pluses to both systems. LFS you get to hand pick your rock, online is cheap, and if you get enough of it, you can get most of the sizes and shapes you want/need.

 

[twistedimage92]

well i would like atleast one big peice... i was thinking like 40x9x12 in... i would guess that would be a pretty good size for my tank, and also about 40-70 lbs? looking at like 200 bucks from LFS at the least... is there a live rock area/weight calculatror?

 

[aresgod]

yea...that piece your looking for is what people at lfs call a "show piece" they are hard to come buy, sought after, and very pricy...... I sold a piece like that size for about 250$ anyways good luck finding a piece like that, where is cocoa beach?

 

[twistedimage92]

florida... near the space shuttle...

 

[dbacksrat]

being in florida, you should be able to get a good deal on carribean/aquacultured live rock

 

[aresgod]

yea, but it is really dense stuff, I like it, and have some in my tank, but I would not use just florida rock in my tank, it looks good as a mix though.

 

[wayne]

I've asked my lfs to bring me some boxes in with their next shipment. This works out very well.

The problem with a very , very large bit is it might not fit in a standard fish box, which means it will be a p.i.t.a. to collect and ship, and so will be very expensive. Try getting 2 or 3 bits and gluing/ziptieing them together

 

[wayne]

The advantage of getting your lfs to ship some extra boxes especially for you is that you get mixed in with their shipping costs, saving money for you, plus it never goes in their system, so while you should expect them to charge something for doing all the paperwork for you, and bing in on their wholesale cost, it should be like wholesale + 25% maybe (guess).

LR is shipped in old fish boxes. I have to assume you know what these look like - polystyrene 16 inch cubes and a second, larger rectangular size. I think a piece 40 inches long is just too big to go in one of these, amking the shipping a real pain. A shame as I much, much prefer to use big pieces.

FWIW I think that would be about 40 or so pounds of Fiji/Pacific. If it was the aquacultured stuff I fear to think

 

[twistedimage92]

yea i was dreading that... the LFS guy drives 4 hours away from here and hand picks his live rock and fish and coral. so i could probably ride with him and get to pick out my rock like that and then just put it in a cooler... not sure tho...

 

[FishGeek]

I bought some (44lbs) off of www.vividaquarium.com and it was really nice rock. They divi up the size of the pieces and the shapes are nice too.

 

[wayne]

We're talking 44 pounds as a single piece here. I feel your pain - I would likeone of those as well. You could always make he thing out of 'aragocrete' (google that word for the recipe)

 

[twistedimage92]

yea LFS guy told me the same...

 

[ram man]

i buy it locally

 

[aresgod]

if you wait some florida stuff can get that big, but expext to pay for it...i sold a piece at 30 lbs for about 300$ it was sweet, I would have paid more for it to be in my tank, but I have no more room...anyways good luck

 

[wayne]

How physically big is a 30 pound piece?

 

[twistedimage92]

you buy and sell live rock? the LFS charges 4.50 a pound... you charge $10 a pound?

 

[FishGeek]

We're talking 44 pounds as a single piece here. I feel your pain - I would likeone of those as well. You could always make he thing out of 'aragocrete' (google that word for the recipe)

I wasnt talking about one peice. I think that I got sommewhere around a dozen. There are larger peices and smaller peices.

 

[lordroad]

you're lucky to find live rock 7 dollars a pound around here. Fiji, Tonga, and florida are usually available. One place charged 11 dollars a pound! Outrageous... as you can imagine, they're out of business now.

 

[aresgod]

I worked at a lfs, and we sell it for different prices depending on where it is from, usually around 7-8$/lb, ur in florida so you are very lucky, LR is cheap, the reason why we sold that rock for 10$/ lb was because it was a fantastic 30 lbs piece filled with holes and crevices, it was soo sweet, and for size wayne, they got some very large pieces like that and had to ship them in special boxes, it was about 30" long 5-7 wide and like 3-4 thick.