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    Posted: November 14 2005 at 10:47pm
I have a 120 gallon tank that I just purchased and I need a lot of live sand/live rock. Is it possible to do a mixture of live rock with base rock and have it all turn into live rock. What about doing that with the sand?

What type of substrate(sand/crushed coral) would you guys recommend doing for a tank that will have some coral/fish in it. This is my first tank so I wont be doing anything fancy until I get some experience under my belt.


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Search for oolitic and LBTR on the lists.
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I read that thread just a little bit ago, it is very interesting. If the rock or sand isn't cleaned sufficiently, will it contaminate the tank?
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There are many threads concerning this and I think the consensus was that any rock has a potential for contamination. Even live rock from the ocean.
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If anyone is going out to the spot where you can get sand and rock I want to go. We should get a group of us to go out before it gets to cold.
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If you decide on using utah oolitic sand and are close to Layton I have a 5gal can of it. Its clean and never been used. Probably not enough for your 120 but might come in handy.
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Where are you located? I'm in Kaysville
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You might find pertinent and useful, the discussion that I will be having on the thread below in the coming days.

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I'm on the border of layton and kaysville so we arnt to far apart. I'm just off Mutton Hollow. I'll pm my address to you.
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