Aquatopia Posted April 23, 2005 Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 Hi folks, My name is Chris and Im another POM escaped from that overcrowded island on the other side of the world ! Been here a year now and looking to get back into the marine hobby. The few excursions i have made to local fish shops seems to have been a bit disappointing. See, I was about to set up a reef tank at apparently you can't get LIVE ROCK over here? Something to do with bio-security. Now I can understand being protective of this wonderful country, but can anyone help or make suggestions? (Either on here or by IM or email if its more appropriate ). Here are a couple of links which you may find interesting, and indicate what i was hoping to find here;- http://www.reefkeeper.co.uk/acatalog/Live_rock.html and another http://www.stm-shop.co.uk/acatalog/Onli ... ck_14.html Also - any of you members from Christchurch - Im keen to meet, chat etc and to have your advice on where is worth going and not going in the area for fish/inverts/hardware. And are there any online stores in NZ ? Cheers for now Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted April 23, 2005 Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 Any live rock you get, other than small fragments corals are attached to, you'll have to get from someone else's tank. You can get base rock which is live rock that's been dried out, steam blasted, irradiated and called dirty names before it's allowed in the country, though. For about the same price most countries can get live rock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquatopia Posted April 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 What does everyone think about existing reefkeeping members on here keeping an extra piece of rock so that new reefers can call on say 5 members (in rotation) and utilise these 5 pieces of already seeded live rocks to fast-track their aquarium setup? Is this something that could work ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie extreme Posted April 23, 2005 Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 hi pomereef and welcome to our world ( live rock that is ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracker Posted April 23, 2005 Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 The best thing to do is try and source some live rock from local marine hobbyists alike. However to find the required amount may be difficult, so you may have to resort to NZ's normal way, which is to get dried Reef rock from FIJI or the likes and mature it yourself, Costs next to nothing and works well, but requires stacks of patience. 8 weeks before usable, and up to six months before it looks any good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquatopia Posted April 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 Thanks everyone for your replies. Have had a few offers to assist with the rock - any other offers will be received with humble gratitude. I could always row to fiji in a pee green boat - me and the owl and the pussycat that is. Anyone got a GPS for dinghies? Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted April 23, 2005 Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 Chris, try TradeMe for the GPS. This is a fish site. :roll: Alan 104 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquatopia Posted April 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 Alan - doh ! That was a joke about the GPS !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracker Posted April 23, 2005 Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 Hehehee!! Crack me up said the Cracker!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 and that was a joke about TradeMe Alan 104 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquatopia Posted April 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2005 :roll: :roll: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted April 25, 2005 Report Share Posted April 25, 2005 To my knowldge the current rules for live rock state that anything obvious has to be removed and they have to sit dry for three weeks this was a recent change and it doesn't take long to settle them in and are still very much alive inside. The last lot I got which was a while ago was straight out of the box and still wet. Aaron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted April 25, 2005 Report Share Posted April 25, 2005 I think there are some advantages to starting with dead base rock. Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brianemone Posted April 25, 2005 Report Share Posted April 25, 2005 very true no flatworms or pesty anemones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted April 25, 2005 Report Share Posted April 25, 2005 I think there are some advantages to starting with dead base rock. That depends on what you define as dead if they haven't been bleached as they use to do many year ago as required. You will have a high level of decay in the rocks. However if you were starting from scratch it would be a good why to spike the system and make it start doing somthing. Aaron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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