Deep Blue:: Anemone Tank>>Update 29/06/2013. Page 7

[SCORPIO]

Already I have a skimmer but don't know where is at home. Today evening I will try to search it.

[Arjun Tandon]

Good Luck with your first marine tank Scorpio!
Let's see if your flair for aquatic plants spreads to growing and propagating sea anemones

[Romi]

MMLR is man made live rock
@ rajeevji congrats on the marine welcome to the beautiful side of marine hobby and plus expensive lol
Lighting is not enough for the anemone plus is the tank cycled ??
Why does the tank looks soo cloudy in the pic ?
Is the substrate new ??

thanks for the explanation.
but man made LR is a contradiction itself. LR's are dead coral rocks, highly porose, full of micro organisms...the actual filter in a marine tank.
the micro organisms can be only developed in months-years long soaking in the sea or a matured marine tank...everything else has no filtration effect and is NO LR...just a rock.
an anemone requires a matured tank with good LR filtration...i think it is a very hard job to keep it alive for more than just a few months long.

That is informative indeed.

So how long would u say a so-called 'man made live rock' MMLR actually needs to be develop to deserve to be called that? Would 6 months be a satisfactory MINIMUM time frame? Second, is there any way of visually identifying a genuine live rock on sale? Have seen several on sale in the past...

[jack]

LR should have coralinealgae, small critters, sponges and other live stuff inside.

How to identify a LR ?
LR should have above mentioned organisms in it

What time should MMLR take to be called LR ?
Depends on the setup that you have. I have seen people/dealers and read that they make their artificial rock and keep it in sea to seed the rock and eventually with time spend in nature those rocks goes live with all stuff of organisms and algae.
Thats make a rock live

This is my 2 cents i might be wrong :p

[juanico]

agree with jack.
am really not an expert in this whole marine stuff, but during my 2 years of keeping a marine tank i had a lot of interaction with senior marine keepers.
what i remember:

good LR:
- not uniform surface, because naturally grown
- colourful, mainly pinkish from coralline red algae, other colours from other algae, organisms, maybe even baby hard corals, sponges
- smells like fresh sea
- light weight (mostly)
- if you break a piece out of it it should appear light grey inside...with porous surface (inside)
example for good LR: http://www.waterworld.pk/images/Live%20 ... erock5.jpg

bad LR:
- grey colour (outside) most organisms, algae dead already and decaying...its pure poison for your tank
- smells bad

man made rocks:
- uniform surface
- uniform colour (white, grey, brown...depends on the ingredients
- no live on outside and inside

So how long would u say a so-called 'man made live rock' MMLR actually needs to be develop to deserve to be called that?

i do not know, there are controversial opinions...some Artificial Live Rock Farms put dead coral pieces (which are initially collected as construction material) back into the sea for 6 months-1 year...but nobody knows if the rocks are as good as original LR...and thats in the sea

putting MM rocks in a tank, possibly without real LR...most people will agree, that those rocks will never be equal to real LR
real LR is expensive...because of their valuable content

[jack]

I ll share the pic of my songle peace of LR with small organisms and plants on it... its a new stuff seen everyday. god knows what lol ....
And real and good quality LR is really dofficult tp get in my opinion. What say ? Any source of excellent cured LR in india ? I am looking for my tank.

[SCORPIO]

A quick update:

The tank as today morning

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Green Carpet Anemone

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Experts, please look Anemone is looking happy or not. Kept first time this creature. Today evening I will also check water parameters.

[jack]

Not an expert but looks good
Lights added ?
Wjere did you got the LR from ??

Amd friends any excellent source of best of the best quality LR ??

[SCORPIO]

Lights added ?

Not get proper lights.

Where did you got the LR from ??

They are artificial rocks. If you need good quality LR, let me know. I will provide you a source in Gujrat. He can supply you best quality rocks.

[himansh]

anemone is looking healthy and vibrating. what do you feeding it.