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I was walking along the beaches of Galveston and found some interesting looking pieces of rock at the shores of its beaches. Is this rock safe?
There is no life on them, but I figured if I put them in my refugium something is bound to grow on them. Would it be safe to add these pieces of rock to my refugium? has anyone ever done this?
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Most aquacultured LR is limestone. Why would limestone be a problem. I personally wouldn't do it because it adds an unkown variable to your tank. What if there is something like tar or some other kind of pollution in the rock or some tiny crab that will turn into a menace or those nasty type of predatory pods.
 
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rocks from Galveston

The chances are that the rock is safe, so long as it does not harbor mean crabs or mantis shrimp.

In addition, I doubt if the rock is "dead". If you found the rock in water, chances are that it harbors signficant life.

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Galvez LR

Most of it is cement or pink granite. Very dense & not very useful. But hey gotta be something interesting on it. Warm teperatures would probably be better.
 
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Well the rock I picked up is very Porous (I was picky when I was searching) and all the small pieces that I picked up where ones that where washed up on the shore. I dont know if it has life or not. Most of it had life on it one point. You can see all the coral cup skeletons on it. Other pieces where large clam shells with tons of sediment that cemented over time. I have it in the quarantine tank right now jus soaking in the water. Since it was out of the water when I picked it up (wll it was at the shore line) I put it in a ziplock back.
Anyway, Maybe I will put it in my refugium, maybe not. Depends on how much feed back I get. There isone of you that works for moody gardens, maybe that marsher can tell me if its good. :D
 
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Re: Galvez LR

eco-reef said:
Most of it is cement or pink granite.
Doh, I meant granite, not limestone. I personally wouldn't use it in a reef tank, mainly because of all the crap put into the water from the ship channel and Texas City.

HolyBanana said:
There isone of you that works for moody gardens, maybe that marsher can tell me if its good.
That was me, I don't work there anymore, I'm at the Kemah Aquarium now. We never used it any tanks at Moody. We did use oysters from the bay, but they were bleached out before we used them. HTH
 
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rock from Galveston

You might have a great find if the rock is porous and you can see coral skeletons - I personally would use it.

Mike
 
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This may be way off topic, and if so, I apologize for hijacking this thread.

My kids find all kinds of shells at the sea shore, not always beach, sometimes rocky shore, or crushed shell beach. Anyway, they take great pride in finding something that we can "put in the tank". I do a simple procedure and a quick wash afterward and have never had a problem. We bring home the shells, most have something living in them, some don't. No discretion, all shells go into the nearest fire ant bed. Four or five days later, fish 'em out with a stick, rinse 'em off, plop, into the tank. Several of my blue leg and scarlet hermits are running around in shells brought home by the kids. The ants do a good job of removing any oranic matter and I'm sure my crabs do the rest. Kids get a thrill out of contributing to the tank.

Back to your discussion. :oops:
 
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hijack

Hey Polecat;

Hijack the thread anytime if its got family fun info to share.
My kids like to do the same thing :D .
 
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