Where to buy life rock/sand

orb4me · 07-23-2008, 09:49 AM

A few people have mentioned where to buy the rock and sand. I cant find the articles.

Im glad to see I dont have to have a huge amount of sand. local lfs rock is $11.00 a pound, that seems like a lot of money, they just started culturing it last week, so maybe I wont have to pay that much. RO water comes tomorrow. Im getting tank and equipment today.

Its getting exciting now

E46er · 07-23-2008, 07:56 PM

my LFS says he will sell me live rock for 4.50 a pound cash and its purple lotsa life on them. shop around you can definately find better deals that 11 bux. search ebay or google for live rock and check out the local classifids

Indymann99 · 07-23-2008, 08:06 PM

I would look around for another LFS. I got my live rock for $5.50 lb cured (uncured was $4.50).

Nereaga · 07-23-2008, 08:17 PM

Hello,

I got some of my LR from my lfs and some from a guy on here... I got sand from a guy on Ebay, less than a $1 a pound shipped to your door...fijisandman is his name...Look him up...

Brad

Judge · 07-24-2008, 08:03 AM

Hi Orb. $11 per pound seems a little high to me. I bought most of mine from Premium Aquatics and I paid 5 something a pound for Fiji Premium cured, it was hand picked and excellently packaged. I had little or no die off. I would definitely buy from them again. I bought some of the Tonga pieces from my lfs and it was only 4.99 per pound. I would sure shop around and compare.

chadf · 07-24-2008, 08:30 PM

You can get live rock for $3 something a pound shipped to your door on ebay. I use the guy nereaga mentioned for sand.

jglas26 · 07-26-2008, 08:34 AM

I definitely wouldn't trust a guy that is trying to sell Live Rock that has been "cultured" for only a week or two - especially of $11/lb. I think that's the most expensive I've ever heard of.

On everything else I agree with the other posts.