got to love that "live" word again, kinda reminds me of the americans "world series" in which the whole world actually play with you....um....
..yeah!
just BS tags placed on products to sell & make people money, scrap that, more money, like yogurt...97% fat free, hello, you made a glossy statement that your product contains 3% fat in a tub small enough that i can lick the bottom, & people walking with their eyes shut are thinking its a good thing, gotcha, hook line & the bloody sinker!!!
For me, a spoons a spoon, doesn't matter if gorg jensen made it, its still a friggin spoon
! OK, IN 1,2,3,out1,2,3....im good to go!
getting back to the topic, im not an overly big fan of scooping up someones live whatever, sand for example, your idea is to keep your tank free from anything unwanted & adding a cup of this, & a bundle of that can indeed pose its own problems, like are you aware of the host tank having problems.ect thus risking a possible dirrect transmission to your fresh display.
Granted we harp on about
live rock sources being top notch & something to aim for, producing quicker cycle times and a more diverse & stable enviroment as a whole, but in reality, we live in the 21st chemical century & egg heads have already cultivated in more hook line & sinker packaged form products that contain the very benifical sorts of bactera we strive so hard for & yet most the time we still forking huge wads of money just to fill our cubes of water with displacement pieces.
Being that ocean sources are
a) both rock & a honny-comb apartment living for the tiny tiny and
b) bacterially alive with other teeming life forms kinda works like killing two birds with one stone.
Whats not screamed at the same pitch is the potential nasties that can hitch-hike along with your newly aquired i just had to sell the dog to pay for this
Live Rock bundle. And the future lingering problems hence-forth you will have to deal with.
Dont get me wrong, im into Buying "live labled" gear, done it in the past, prob do it in the future, im just talking from a personal stand point here & would like to point out that seeding dry materials with propretry cultured products might be a viable option for new comers, that are firstly in information overload to begin with, & secondly have know idea in most cases the potential of hitting the lottery in the nasty sections of your local ocean supermarket. & thirdly bacterial manipulating in this way is both cheaper, less stressful to the wallet & the brain & your able to keep cycle times with normal parameters. To practise what i just preached, im going to make it a point to seed my new nano tank artifically.
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