About Live Rock - Part 6
The final chapter in this series from your Guides talks about what it means when you see the term "grade" of live rock, and how to choose the right types of materials to make your own.
BYB a Protein Skimmer
Before you buy a protein skimmer that is suitable for your aquarium needs, take a look at the many types one can choose from, what features they have, and what differences there are between the many models available.
How To Cycle a Tank With Live Rock
From start to finish, here are instructions from your About Guides on how to set up and cycle a new tank with live rock in 10 easy steps, which includes details about how to aquascape the tank and arrange the rocks in Step 5.
Adding Live Rock & Live Sand To Your Tank
From Albert Thiel, detailed steps for cleaning and preparing your live rock before introduction into your aquarium for curing and how to add live sand.
Any Special Additives Needed?
From Robert Metelsky's Simplified Reef Keeping FAQ's, Robert discusses how he adds kalkwasser (calcium), iodine and strontium to enhance the growth of corals and other reef life on live rock.
Aquascaping Live Rock
Step 5 of your About Guides "How To Set Up a Saltwater Aquarium in 10 Easy Steps" article has many tips about how to aquascape and arrange live rock in a tank.
Arranging Rock & Aquascaping
From the Reef Resources' Guide section, valuable tips and information about arranging live rock, including drawings of various aquascaping layouts you can choose to fit your aquarium needs.
Arranging Live Rock
From Harbor Aquatics, information on how to properly arrange live rock to suit the arrangement of the tank and lights.
Conversion Process to LS & LR
From Albert Thiel's Aquarium Infobase Library, how to convert from your present system adding LS and LR.
Cured & Uncured LR
From The Pet Stop, great info about cured and uncured live rock and how to cure it yourself.
Filtration Methods, An In-Depth Look
From the AquaSite Articles Index, DxReef discusses nitrates and outlines the use of the Berlin, Modern Berlin, or Jaubert Filtration methods to help with nitrate reduction.
How Much Live Rock Is Required
From Robert Metelsky's Simplified Reef Keeping FAQ's, a simple equation to help you determine how much live rock to use, as well as some basic tips about rock placement.
How to Cure Live Rock
Here is livestockusa.org's instructions for curing live rock once you buy it and get it home, which includes an interesting tip about using the highly bioactive stuff scraped off the rock during preparation as starter "seed" material for a tank.
How to Cycle a New Reef Tank With LR Only
From Robert Metelsky's Simplified Reef Keeping FAQ's, Robert outlines how to cycle a new reef tank using only live rock, which he considers to be the best and easiest way to do it.
Live Rock FAQs
This Live Rock FAQ from the FINS Reefkeeper's FAQs Table of Contents covers a complete discussion about the many aspects about live rock and keeping it.
New Trends In Reefkeeping
Sprung and Delbeek's (1990) article about using live rock as your biological filter and of the process of setting up a reef tank using seeded and unseeded live rock.
Starter Reef Tank Package
Tampa Bay Saltwater offers a "package" for starting a reef tank natures way with with live sand, live rock and some live critters.
What Type of Lighting is Best?
From Robert Metelsky's Simplified Reef Keeping FAQ's, Robert gives his recommendation for what type of lighting is best for a live rock or reef aquarium.
Your First Reef Aquarium
How to Create a Miniature Coral Reef System at Home by J. Charles Delbeek gives you all kinds of detailed information about live rock and how to cure it.
