Lr or LS...to broke for both!

[yae4volcom]

Both LS and LR are really expensive.......I was only planning on getting one and then adding the other in a couple months.......I could buy regular sand and then let the LR harvest it or get LS and have a fish only tank for a couple months! Is the LR or LS cheeper at local salt water fish stores or is it the same as the price on line? Any suggestions?

 

[dockery07]

They are both expensive.
but go with live rock

 

[debbers]

Live Rock!!
You can use aragonite sand for your substrate and the LR will help with the biological filtration.
If you're going to try a reef set up, though, from what I've heard you will want LS as well. For fish only, the LR with aragonite is a good way to go.
HTH
~D~

 

[broomer5]

Get the live rock !
Most any aragonite sand will be fine. Most.
You can skip the live sand - but I would not skip the rock.
I've never bought live sand ( well I did buy some Aragamax bagged sand - but was not too impressed )
But do whatever you can to at least get aragonite sand if at all possible.
ROCK ON !

 

[jcsurfn]

I thought the LR would seed the argonite sand and make it live?

 

[saltywashington]

I thought that live rock would seed also, Sammy is that correct or are we off our rockers?

 

[melbournefl]

Nope your rockers are still on. Given time live rock will "create" live sand, for that matter, if time is not an issue, a little chunk of live rock will seed both base rock and sand. Obviously, the more "live" rock you have the quicker the seeding and cycling process.
Just my .02,
Paul

 

[saltywashington]

Great I thought I had lost it for a sec thanks for the reasurance.