• What is a living stone and why do we need it?

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Cindy

And yet, what distinguishes your live rock from J.K. (live rocks) brought from the ocean? I need 40-50 kg. What is generally understood by the term "live" in S.R.K. (dry reef rocks) - please clarify... then it will be easier for people to understand which cultures inhabit dry S.R.K.? How well does it function like J.K. (live rocks)? Thank you in advance for a detailed response.

Beth3383

informative, learned a lot of new things.

Stephanie4990

What is the value of coralline? I look at the former S.R.K. (dry reef stones). At first, they were porous, but now all the pores are covered with coralline. I believe that a stone completely covered with coralline becomes decorative. Again, I think that in the real sea, coralline cannot grow on stones because all the growths are eaten away by fish in no time. In any case, all the lower algae that manage to grow on the stones in half a day are completely devoured by fish after lunch. The crunch of fish teeth on the stone is heard loudly. And I have not seen coralline on those stones.

Christine864

+1 and due to the clogging of porosity, it reduces its activity as a live rock. Just not due to being eaten by fish (fish do not eat it), the conditions in the sea (in nature) are not suitable for coralline. No, it pulls calcium from the water, and the question of decorativeness is also debatable (a matter of taste).

Lynn4242

So why do the stones from the wheels, i.e., those directly broken off the reef (in the sea), come in nature all covered in growths, with 80% of the stone's surface covered in this very Carolina......................I personally opened boxes with just-arrived live rocks from Indonesia, and 70-80% of the stone was covered in Carolina.

Laura3615

Where did you see such stones "from the wheels"?

Joshua9340

I didn't break any reefs, but I spent plenty of time on them, saw a lot of things, but I just didn't come across any coralline.

David2398

Igor, you were diving in the wrong reefs. Coraline also knew that you had an aquarium and was hiding from you.

Jessica5348

Only the one who sent them, out of modesty, remained silent about the fact that after Indonesia, these stones spent two months on the territory.

Rachel9060

I also get messages from Indonesians saying that their live rock is almost entirely covered with Carolina. Most likely, that's true.

Loretta5483

Well, you can write a lot about it. It's worth remembering what conditions are most suitable for coralline algae (starting with light) and how it all looks in nature. P.S. The coralline algae declared by the sender on the rocks may be a completely different species of calcified algae, not the purple spots we are used to seeing in our aquariums - for example, Corallina officinalis.

Joseph8842

I saw at the delivery with A that the boxes hadn't even been unpacked yet and the stones hadn't been put into the aquariums, meaning the stones came straight from Indonesia and hadn't been in A's aquariums for 2 months. So, these stones were 80% covered with Carolina, which means you are apparently mistaken. The stones with Carolina come directly from the "producer" from the reefs, meaning Carolina is the basic growth on Indonesian stones. Maybe you dived in the Black Sea and that's why you didn't see Carolina on the stones.

Rachel9060

Well, well...

Angel628

Guys, don't play ping pong... In the same AiRife, I bought fresh live rocks with various types of Carolina and red algae bushes on them. It's hard to say from which places they are broken, probably even for them. Maybe they lie in pools before shipping. Although I think no one will argue that there are different places in the sea with different kinds of life on them.

Jessica6754

The first photo is with Karolina, right?

Vanessa

It's clear that if it's a red stone, then what is it? And when it dries, it will be a dirty white. That's when it becomes S.R.C. (dry reef stones).

Rodney3101

Let's go into more detail from this point.