Live rock Purchase

[interj]

Online or from LFS, my local store is about $8-10 per pound. If I need 100lbs in my 90 I am looking at $800-$1,000. I can get it here for 1/2 the price.
What's your experience and recomendations?

 

[masala4080]

A lot of people say it is great quality on this site. I dont have some from here myself, but from everyone else, they say it cant be beat!

 

[teresaq]

You can check out on line auction site.

 

[swnewb]

Getting it online will be much cheaper. The ONLY advantage getting LR from your LFS is that you can actually pick out the pieces. A word of advice, unless you live very close to the place you are ordering your rock from, get the uncured stuff. It is usually much cheaper and besides, by the time you get you "cured" rock in the mail, it will be uncured anyways. Just cure your new rock in a tub and add it to your tank when ready.

 

[plomanto]

I started with 120lbs uncured LR and 90lbs Hirocks base rocks...my tank is only 9 weeks old and the hirocks are getting purple coroline and small feather dusters are starting to show up....
Peter

 

[bean 1]

I have purchased 400 + pounds from this site and hundreds of pounds from other online sites and have been very pleased with SWF.com. The LR has great coralline coverage and lots of stuff surviving the shipping. I have feather dusters, button polyps, snails, soft corals....never any unwanted pests either. You'll get some very tiny bristle worms that will seed your sand but none of the monsters that you sometimes get with the uncured LR that survive the cycle. I always get a good variety of sizes and shapes and very little rubble. I recommend the LR from this site, you won't be disappointed. I just wish they had some other types of LR (marshall island, tonga branch, tonga slab....because it can get expensive elsewhere real quick!) Good Luck
Bean