Yup been making live rock for years. Your narration and techniques are perfect. Sweet video and super informative!

Oh awesome! Thank you so much! 😁😁

Thank you!! I can't wait to make more, it's actually lots of fun! 😊👏

Thank you!! 😊😊

Thank you! Yes they are so expensive hey.

Thank you 😊😊

Thank you! 😊😊 ok that’s interesting, thanks for the info 👌

@@SimpleAquariumsLauren kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zq1iY9VpstXZh2g.html Have a look This is all I made with white cement and using only hands and no molds.You def do a great job and also supporting the environment by rather making your own roc

Thank you! 😊👌

So, here is a tip :) I have been making my own rocks for a long time. Try and get white cement instead of usual grey portland cement. The reason is because if the ash in the grey cement, you have loads of phosphates leeching from the rocks even after curing them in fresh water. You will see what I mean after a while in the tank. The second reason is that once it done, even though it will be covered with coraline eventually, a pure white rock looks lots better than the grey rock in the beginning stages.

PS!! Sorry, I am like a tip machine today. So what you can also do is to just make lumps of these, then let them dry then chisel them apart and then build structures. I have been doing for years now and you will never go back to stacking rocks again. You can have a look at the BRS video where they do this as well. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbCUn5xzzKrRfoU.html

Thank you!! The salt will dissolve in the water when you soak it, creating a nice porous rock 😁👌

Hehe yeah, will see how we go. Might end up getting one, you never know 😊👌

Thank you!! 😊 are you a fellow Aussie youtuber too? Awesome! I used Portland cement, just cheap stuff from Bunnings. And shell grit I got from a pet shop or stock feeds place (it’s used for chickens) 😊

@@SimpleAquariumsLauren Well, I dont post much. Yep, reefer in Sydney. My daughter works at a place that sells chickens and just told me they have it. Should have asked her first! :)Thanks for the reply.

Oh awesome!! That’s perfect then. 👏 😁

I bought it from a stock feeds shop. The salt is used for horses. 😊

@@SimpleAquariumsLauren Thank you,i m gonna try to find it ☺️

@@SimpleAquariumsLauren Hey. I have another question. Do I really need the salt for the the rocks or does it work without too? Thank you 😊 .

Yeah will do for sure! 😁👌

@@SimpleAquariumsLauren awesome! it wont mess with the PH?

Who would buy this shit? My god these are ugly and look like where a cement truck took a shit. I would never allow this shit in any of my tanks….. hell I wouldn’t even allow this to lay in the yard!

@@waynewayne9693 is your surname ‘Ker’ by any chance??

I’m not too sure what you could do to make it lighter, maybe not use as much cement in the mix? 😊

@@SimpleAquariumsLauren Lol, I think gonna try with acrylic mixed with cement, as pure cement, sand, oyster shells got really heavy. Thanks

Nice! Let us know how it turns out 👏

@@SimpleAquariumsLauren sure will thanks

Add a good amount of perlite it makes it much lighter.

Oh wow! $20-$30 per KG in Australia

You’re very lucky then! 😊

@@SimpleAquariumsLauren Maybe the Australian government handles a ridiculous high importtaxes or something? Afaik in the US dryrock is also cheap.

Possibly? not sure why it’s so expensive 🤔 wish it wasn’t 😩

​@SimpleAquariumsLauren more nowdays! Just saw some on ebay for $90 per kg.

You dont need live rocks, for exemple dry rocks take longer to cycle the tank, but if you get enough surface for the bacterias to multiply, I don't know how it wouldnt work knowing that a lot of modern reefers use manmade rocks

@@willix_2192 yes, so do man made rocks have the same surface area as the much more pores rock that most reefers tend to cure as live rock? My understanding is the bacteria will grow all through the rock it self and a man made rock is much more dense with much less surface area.

I can assure you, just in the same way you took the time out of your day to tell me this… being a woman wouldn’t stop people “clowning” on me if they really wanted to. 😊👍 luckily I couldn’t care less if they did.