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Aquacultured Live Rock

post #1 of 3
2/27/09 at 6:37pm
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With all the poaching of the reefs that goes on, I just had to share this:

There's a company in FL that aquacultures its own live rock. They have a video posted on their site showing how they leased a spot in the Gulf of Mexico from the Federal government and dumped millions of pounds of rocks in it to make it "live".

Obviously I can't post a link because they sell live rock as does SWF, but I just thought this was great.

Do a search on "Tampa Bay" and "Live Rock" and you should find it easily.
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post #2 of 3
2/28/09 at 2:13am
yea its a great idea. but they're website is less than user friendly.
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post #3 of 3
8/5/09 at 12:37pm
I have a bunch of pieces of D.I.Y. rock that I made last year and then didn't like the appearance of them. I am a scuba diver, so I've been contemplating the notion of making some new shapes, affixing a name tag to them (or actually carving my name into the D.I.Y. rock) and placing them in the ocean, offshore, at a location where I can find them again in a year. Basically the same thing that place in Tampa is doing, just on a smaller scale.


Does anyone know if this would qualify as being in possession of a "live rock" within the EEZ? (I hope not as it's illegal.)
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