Base rock question

bjc451 · 03/20/2006, 04:33 PM

anyone ever buy the base rocks from hirocks or reeferrock and what was your experience

Shooter7 · 03/20/2006, 04:39 PM

Reeferrocks was great. Specified the size, relative shape, and color of the rocks I wanted. Capt. Jer sent me an email pic of the rocks he chose per those requests for me to approve or alter as I saw fit. They were then shipped to me right away. They are in my tank, look great IMO, and already have coralline building up on them after not quite 3 months in the tank.

Fade · 03/20/2006, 04:40 PM

I bought show rock from hirocks and it took a long time to come in. Very dence but nice shapes.

Reefer Wannabe · 03/20/2006, 04:40 PM

I bought from hirocks and was very happy with my rock. When adding some rock for the new tank though, I just used holey limestone from a landscaping place (cleaned well), and it looked pretty much the same. And, at 12 cents a pound, you can't beat it.

bjc451 · 03/20/2006, 04:44 PM

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s=&postid=6999523#post6999523 target=_blank>Originally posted by Shooter7
Reeferrocks was great. Specified the size, relative shape, and color of the rocks I wanted. Capt. Jer sent me an email pic of the rocks he chose per those requests for me to approve or alter as I saw fit. They were then shipped to me right away. They are in my tank, look great IMO, and already have coralline building up on them after not quite 3 months in the tank.

did you seed the coralline with some live stuff, or just scraped some from a previous tank

chadfarmer · 03/20/2006, 04:47 PM

seed the rock with a piece of live rock or live sand either way it will take a while but will be live in a little while

anyone try CaribSea reef bones

Shooter7 · 03/20/2006, 05:41 PM

I did a combo of live rock and base rock.

shaw · 03/20/2006, 06:49 PM

hirocks has worked for me well. ya, large and dense, but they grew coraline very quickly.

StupidsReef · 03/21/2006, 10:00 AM

I have 90lbs of Hirocks. I like it however it did take a very long time to get it. I place most of it on the bottom and put my 75 lbs of LR on top of it. Plus I already had LS. I bought the Hirocks off of e-bay and won it around $15.oo cheaper than their site offers it. I would like to try reeferrock as well, it looks better in the pics than the Hirocks. Oh and I've used the purple up until I was out, Now I have been dripping pickleing lime. I've noticed a diifrents in the color of all my LR's.

Dert42 · 03/21/2006, 10:30 AM

i paid for 60lbs of the plain large stuff from hirocks last monday.
here it is 8 days later and i can't even get confirmation of shipping out of the guy...
so i can't say i would recommend it quite yet.

StupidsReef · 03/21/2006, 10:38 AM

yea it took over 16 days for mine to arrvive on both orders. But he did reply once and said it was on it's way. Can you take pics of the plain and post them? I got the "best pieces" and would like to see your's to compare. I have pics of mine in my gallary if you want to see it. I'ts the white rock in the tank.

Dert42 · 03/21/2006, 11:51 AM

i will totally do that.
i'm going to need at least another 60.
i decided to get the plain first and see how plain it really was before ordering more.

Shooter7 · 03/21/2006, 12:01 PM

This is a pic of the actual rock I got from reeferrocks. They sent me this picture in an email for me to confirm that I wanted these specific rocks or he would replace any that I didn't like and send me another confirmation email.

StupidsReef · 03/21/2006, 12:41 PM

Dude that looks just like the pics on his site.

Shooter7 · 03/21/2006, 12:55 PM

Here's a link to the thread from when I got it, with the above pic and a pic I took of a few pieces when I got them at home. You even responded on this thread, stupidsreef.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...highlight=base

Hobbes8017 · 03/21/2006, 01:31 PM

My situation is similar to this, but I did not use rock from "HiRock" or "ReeferRock". I got 160 lbs of Fiji and Tongo rock that was taken out of an aquarium 2 years ago and left to die.

I soaked all the rock in a 55 gallon container for several days and then scrubbed it all. It was almost pure white. I took a 100 gallon stock tank that was never used for an aquarium. Added 80 lbs of live sand, the 160 lbs of "dead" rock, 30 lbs of fresh LR from an aquarium and let nature take its course. I have a protein Skimmer and lights on a timer over the stock tank.

The system has been running for 4 weeks now.

The pictures below show the color already covering the sides of the stock tank and the "dead" rock.

The Green Star Polyps was given to me by Fade32 and I glued it to one of the Tonga branchs when it was still white.

I am surprised by the amount of color in such a short period of time.

The rock on the right is from the active aquarium. The rocks in the middle were pure white a few weeks ago.

In this picture, you can see 3 of the rocks I used to seed, the one in the middle was one of the "dead" rocks

StupidsReef · 03/21/2006, 02:08 PM

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Originally posted by Shooter7
Here's a link to the thread from when I got it, with the above pic and a pic I took of a few pieces when I got them at home. You even responded on this thread, stupidsreef.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...highlight=base

So do you have any pics of it in your tank?? I said it once and I'll say it again, His rock looks just like what his pic does on his site! That's sweet dude

My order's from Hirocks didn't look "just" like the pics, some of the rock was close to the pics, but not like yours from reefrocks.

StupidsReef · 03/21/2006, 02:12 PM

Congrats Hobbs, I told you that day at Chads house that you didn't want that rock, you should have just given it to me. I mean look at it, it's gotten all purple and stuff and full of color which you really didn't want. But since I'm such a

dude, even though it's all purple and colored up now I will STILL be happy to take that "junk" rock off your hands.

Looking really good Hobbs, you did a good job!

Shooter7 · 03/21/2006, 02:31 PM

Here's a fairly recent pic from my tank. All the lower (base) rocks are the reeferrocks. Look at the area above the large feather dusters and below the pink birdsnest frag, that's a reeferrock that was white like the earlier pics before, but in this pic at about 2 months or so in the tank, it has good coralline growing on it.

StupidsReef · 03/21/2006, 02:37 PM

Shooter, I don't see a diffrents than the day you got that rock. I think it's junk rock! You should just give it to me (for free that is as I would be doing you a favor and taking it off your hands) and try getting some new rock

I would be more than happy to give you this rock that my Dad has got out at his house, he gets this rock from off the side of HWY 44 & 55, I'm sure it would be better than what you have

Shooter7 · 03/21/2006, 02:39 PM

Why, uh....how could I EVER, uh

....pass a "deal" like, uh, that up.

Come on over right now with your, uh, much better rock....and stuff.

I'm going to sprain my eyeballs if I keep doing this

StupidsReef · 03/21/2006, 02:44 PM

Thats really nice looking rock. It was worth the shot. My hirocks don't look that nice just yet. It's coloring up but slowly. I still need about 60 to 70 lbs of rock, I'll be getting it from reefrocks someday.

Dert42 · 03/21/2006, 03:06 PM

has anyone tried any of that purple up stuff?
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Produc...&N=2004+113028
(not an endorsement of the site!)

Shooter7 · 03/21/2006, 03:11 PM

Everything I've seen posted of it here on RC said it was just garbage. You'd probably be better off just scraping some coralline off of a nice rock into your tank.

Hobbes8017 · 03/21/2006, 03:31 PM

I have put nothing in my stock tank. Just letting the stuff sit there and it is coloring up on its own. Even the sides of the stock tank are getting alot of color.

03/20/2006, 04:33 PM	#1
bjc451 Moved On Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 383	Base rock question anyone ever buy the base rocks from hirocks or reeferrock and what was your experience

03/20/2006, 04:39 PM	#2
Shooter7 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tolono, IL Posts: 6,754	Reeferrocks was great. Specified the size, relative shape, and color of the rocks I wanted. Capt. Jer sent me an email pic of the rocks he chose per those requests for me to approve or alter as I saw fit. They were then shipped to me right away. They are in my tank, look great IMO, and already have coralline building up on them after not quite 3 months in the tank. __________________ Dave Current Tank Info: 10 years salty - standard 29g reef - moved from 120 gal reef, 2x250w Reeflux 10k's on ARO electronics and VHO super actinics on Icecap ballast, 2xTunze 6060, MSX 200 skimmer, GEO 612 Ca reactor, mag 12 return

03/20/2006, 04:40 PM	#3
Fade Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Ofallon Mo Posts: 2,221	I bought show rock from hirocks and it took a long time to come in. Very dence but nice shapes. __________________ The grass may be greener on the other side but you still have to cut it. Current Tank Info: 150 in the works

03/20/2006, 04:40 PM	#4
Reefer Wannabe Premium Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Maryland Heights, MO Posts: 2,000	I bought from hirocks and was very happy with my rock. When adding some rock for the new tank though, I just used holey limestone from a landscaping place (cleaned well), and it looked pretty much the same. And, at 12 cents a pound, you can't beat it. __________________ "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." --C.S. Lewis Current Tank Info: 28 JBJ LED Professional - softies and LPS

03/20/2006, 04:47 PM	#6
chadfarmer Premium Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: ST Charles, MO far from nanook Posts: 11,045 Blog Entries: 1	seed the rock with a piece of live rock or live sand either way it will take a while but will be live in a little while anyone try CaribSea reef bones __________________ If you think you know the answer than ask 3 more people the question Current Tank Info: 200 Gal RR,ATB medium, 4 AI blue sol,230 LBS LIVE ROCK, no sand , 40 GAL sump, airstar1800, 3 tunze 6105 1- 6205 1-6305, Geo 818, profilux3ex with toys

03/20/2006, 05:41 PM	#7
Shooter7 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tolono, IL Posts: 6,754	I did a combo of live rock and base rock. __________________ Dave Current Tank Info: 10 years salty - standard 29g reef - moved from 120 gal reef, 2x250w Reeflux 10k's on ARO electronics and VHO super actinics on Icecap ballast, 2xTunze 6060, MSX 200 skimmer, GEO 612 Ca reactor, mag 12 return

03/20/2006, 06:49 PM	#8
shaw Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Florida Posts: 799	hirocks has worked for me well. ya, large and dense, but they grew coraline very quickly. __________________ Have you thanked your Diatoms Today! Current Tank Info: Work for public aquarium

03/21/2006, 10:00 AM	#9
StupidsReef Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Somewhere near the ST. Louis area. Posts: 3,013	I have 90lbs of Hirocks. I like it however it did take a very long time to get it. I place most of it on the bottom and put my 75 lbs of LR on top of it. Plus I already had LS. I bought the Hirocks off of e-bay and won it around $15.oo cheaper than their site offers it. I would like to try reeferrock as well, it looks better in the pics than the Hirocks. Oh and I've used the purple up until I was out, Now I have been dripping pickleing lime. I've noticed a diifrents in the color of all my LR's. __________________ "We may define faith as a firm belief in something for which there is not evidence. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence." Current Tank Info: 225g RR 100g sump T5 lighting Octopus DDNw300 GEO Calcium Reactor Dual GFO reactor, now I just need some frags

03/21/2006, 10:30 AM	#10
Dert42 Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lake St.Louis, MO Posts: 1,363	i paid for 60lbs of the plain large stuff from hirocks last monday. here it is 8 days later and i can't even get confirmation of shipping out of the guy... so i can't say i would recommend it quite yet. __________________ if($saltwatertank =='yes') { $bankaccount--; } Current Tank Info: 65g

03/21/2006, 10:38 AM	#11
StupidsReef Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Somewhere near the ST. Louis area. Posts: 3,013	yea it took over 16 days for mine to arrvive on both orders. But he did reply once and said it was on it's way. Can you take pics of the plain and post them? I got the "best pieces" and would like to see your's to compare. I have pics of mine in my gallary if you want to see it. I'ts the white rock in the tank. __________________ "We may define faith as a firm belief in something for which there is not evidence. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence." Current Tank Info: 225g RR 100g sump T5 lighting Octopus DDNw300 GEO Calcium Reactor Dual GFO reactor, now I just need some frags

03/21/2006, 11:51 AM	#12
Dert42 Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lake St.Louis, MO Posts: 1,363	i will totally do that. i'm going to need at least another 60. i decided to get the plain first and see how plain it really was before ordering more. __________________ if($saltwatertank =='yes') { $bankaccount--; } Current Tank Info: 65g

03/21/2006, 12:01 PM	#13
Shooter7 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tolono, IL Posts: 6,754	This is a pic of the actual rock I got from reeferrocks. They sent me this picture in an email for me to confirm that I wanted these specific rocks or he would replace any that I didn't like and send me another confirmation email. __________________ Dave Current Tank Info: 10 years salty - standard 29g reef - moved from 120 gal reef, 2x250w Reeflux 10k's on ARO electronics and VHO super actinics on Icecap ballast, 2xTunze 6060, MSX 200 skimmer, GEO 612 Ca reactor, mag 12 return

03/21/2006, 12:41 PM	#14
StupidsReef Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Somewhere near the ST. Louis area. Posts: 3,013	Dude that looks just like the pics on his site. __________________ "We may define faith as a firm belief in something for which there is not evidence. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence." Current Tank Info: 225g RR 100g sump T5 lighting Octopus DDNw300 GEO Calcium Reactor Dual GFO reactor, now I just need some frags

03/21/2006, 12:55 PM	#15
Shooter7 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tolono, IL Posts: 6,754	Here's a link to the thread from when I got it, with the above pic and a pic I took of a few pieces when I got them at home. You even responded on this thread, stupidsreef. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...highlight=base __________________ Dave Current Tank Info: 10 years salty - standard 29g reef - moved from 120 gal reef, 2x250w Reeflux 10k's on ARO electronics and VHO super actinics on Icecap ballast, 2xTunze 6060, MSX 200 skimmer, GEO 612 Ca reactor, mag 12 return

03/21/2006, 01:31 PM	#16
Hobbes8017 Moved On Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 667	My situation is similar to this, but I did not use rock from "HiRock" or "ReeferRock". I got 160 lbs of Fiji and Tongo rock that was taken out of an aquarium 2 years ago and left to die. I soaked all the rock in a 55 gallon container for several days and then scrubbed it all. It was almost pure white. I took a 100 gallon stock tank that was never used for an aquarium. Added 80 lbs of live sand, the 160 lbs of "dead" rock, 30 lbs of fresh LR from an aquarium and let nature take its course. I have a protein Skimmer and lights on a timer over the stock tank. The system has been running for 4 weeks now. The pictures below show the color already covering the sides of the stock tank and the "dead" rock. The Green Star Polyps was given to me by Fade32 and I glued it to one of the Tonga branchs when it was still white. I am surprised by the amount of color in such a short period of time. The rock on the right is from the active aquarium. The rocks in the middle were pure white a few weeks ago. In this picture, you can see 3 of the rocks I used to seed, the one in the middle was one of the "dead" rocks

03/21/2006, 02:12 PM	#18
StupidsReef Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Somewhere near the ST. Louis area. Posts: 3,013	Congrats Hobbs, I told you that day at Chads house that you didn't want that rock, you should have just given it to me. I mean look at it, it's gotten all purple and stuff and full of color which you really didn't want. But since I'm such a dude, even though it's all purple and colored up now I will STILL be happy to take that "junk" rock off your hands. Looking really good Hobbs, you did a good job! __________________ "We may define faith as a firm belief in something for which there is not evidence. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence." Current Tank Info: 225g RR 100g sump T5 lighting Octopus DDNw300 GEO Calcium Reactor Dual GFO reactor, now I just need some frags

03/21/2006, 02:31 PM	#19
Shooter7 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tolono, IL Posts: 6,754	Here's a fairly recent pic from my tank. All the lower (base) rocks are the reeferrocks. Look at the area above the large feather dusters and below the pink birdsnest frag, that's a reeferrock that was white like the earlier pics before, but in this pic at about 2 months or so in the tank, it has good coralline growing on it. __________________ Dave Current Tank Info: 10 years salty - standard 29g reef - moved from 120 gal reef, 2x250w Reeflux 10k's on ARO electronics and VHO super actinics on Icecap ballast, 2xTunze 6060, MSX 200 skimmer, GEO 612 Ca reactor, mag 12 return

03/21/2006, 02:37 PM	#20
StupidsReef Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Somewhere near the ST. Louis area. Posts: 3,013	Shooter, I don't see a diffrents than the day you got that rock. I think it's junk rock! You should just give it to me (for free that is as I would be doing you a favor and taking it off your hands) and try getting some new rock I would be more than happy to give you this rock that my Dad has got out at his house, he gets this rock from off the side of HWY 44 & 55, I'm sure it would be better than what you have __________________ "We may define faith as a firm belief in something for which there is not evidence. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence." Current Tank Info: 225g RR 100g sump T5 lighting Octopus DDNw300 GEO Calcium Reactor Dual GFO reactor, now I just need some frags

03/21/2006, 02:39 PM	#21
Shooter7 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tolono, IL Posts: 6,754	Why, uh....how could I EVER, uh ....pass a "deal" like, uh, that up. Come on over right now with your, uh, much better rock....and stuff. I'm going to sprain my eyeballs if I keep doing this __________________ Dave Current Tank Info: 10 years salty - standard 29g reef - moved from 120 gal reef, 2x250w Reeflux 10k's on ARO electronics and VHO super actinics on Icecap ballast, 2xTunze 6060, MSX 200 skimmer, GEO 612 Ca reactor, mag 12 return

03/21/2006, 02:44 PM	#22
StupidsReef Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Somewhere near the ST. Louis area. Posts: 3,013	Thats really nice looking rock. It was worth the shot. My hirocks don't look that nice just yet. It's coloring up but slowly. I still need about 60 to 70 lbs of rock, I'll be getting it from reefrocks someday. __________________ "We may define faith as a firm belief in something for which there is not evidence. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence." Current Tank Info: 225g RR 100g sump T5 lighting Octopus DDNw300 GEO Calcium Reactor Dual GFO reactor, now I just need some frags

03/21/2006, 03:06 PM	#23
Dert42 Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lake St.Louis, MO Posts: 1,363	has anyone tried any of that purple up stuff? http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Produc...&N=2004+113028 (not an endorsement of the site!) __________________ if($saltwatertank =='yes') { $bankaccount--; } Current Tank Info: 65g

03/21/2006, 03:11 PM	#24
Shooter7 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tolono, IL Posts: 6,754	Everything I've seen posted of it here on RC said it was just garbage. You'd probably be better off just scraping some coralline off of a nice rock into your tank. __________________ Dave Current Tank Info: 10 years salty - standard 29g reef - moved from 120 gal reef, 2x250w Reeflux 10k's on ARO electronics and VHO super actinics on Icecap ballast, 2xTunze 6060, MSX 200 skimmer, GEO 612 Ca reactor, mag 12 return

03/21/2006, 03:31 PM	#25
Hobbes8017 Moved On Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 667	I have put nothing in my stock tank. Just letting the stuff sit there and it is coloring up on its own. Even the sides of the stock tank are getting alot of color.