A New Kind of Aquarium Rock at MarcoRocks 

This will be amazing if they can keep it affordable!

Best of luck with your live-rock project Marco. It's lovely to see a mined rock, without an impact to the natural reefs. It's even better to see you curing it, inoculating it, and growing coralline on it. Bravo

Very cool to see how and where this is made. Thanks for this great episode 👍🏻 👏🏻 🙌🏼

I have been wanting to do this for decades. glad someone with the resources is doing it. game changer.

For those that say dry rock is the bane of a new Reefer, it's true. It's a dinoflagelates guarantee and often times runs people out of the hobby. I just went through it in my new build. However, like everything else, forward progress must be made, and we simply cannot keep taking from the ocean. Anyone that's using this and having trouble, or will be using this, there's an easy way to bypass your ugly stage. You'll need a Nitrate, Phosphate, and Magnesium test kit at minimum. You're going to start with your normal nitrifying bacteria and cycle for a week or two. Right after your ammonia and nitrite drop, you're going to dose Brightwell NeoNitro and hopefully you'll have a few fish to feed for phosphates. Keep your Nitrate levels at a steady 10 to 15, no harm if a little more. Phosphate should take care of itself from feeding fish, but don't overfeed. Keep your Magnesium up at 1500 as this helps fight algae outbreaks. Marco rock leeches these nutrients from the water until it gets established. That's what causes Dinos and you can't stop them because your Nitrate level is always near 0. Keep the Nitrate level up by dosing and don't let your Phosphates get high. You'll bypass most of this stage of not all.

Loving my Marco rock!

This is super dope. Feeding my inquisitive mind! There’s definitely a market out there for pest free cured rock.

What a treat!

So awesome to see!!

Great video at an awesome facility! Thanks for doing this! Love the idea of making live rock!

While it's great that they are going to offer these pre-cycled wet rocks, this is really something that LFS's should be doing. Shipping dry is far cheaper. That way shipping costs can be kept down and LFS's can offer something that shipping makes online less competitive at. They just need some big vats and space to put them. That way people could even choose the rocks they like.

great stuff keep up the good work

Actual live rock. That's awesome!

Brilliant 9:54

This is the next step and if done right, will fix a lot of issues that people are having...

I bought a few hundred pounds for my tank,, it’s fantastic. My Royal Grammas love the shelf rock (they all do)

very interesting 🧐 🪨

You could sell the byproduct, negative space is so popular these days and you need rubble and powder to build a scape. Sure people mostly make their own byproduct but its a pain smashing up rock to powder.I would buy it.

Gotta wait for this rock before I start my next tank!

I also see staxx rock there, thats a real game changer for frag systems with minimum rock in the display.

Thats a game changer. I hope it works out well.

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I would absolutely buy this if I could find it.

If you’re starting with dry rock, Marco Rock is the only way to go. It supports the most life

Wow

Any updates on the live rock?

Where do they send the by-product?

Can you buy direct from them if you're local?

I wonder what that big secret could be 😂

Wonder how much they’re gonna up charge…. $20/lb?

Where is the new Marco location?

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very cool but why don't you just call it culture it live rock

Leeches a lot of nutrients and other elements, much better products on the market than Marco....

Marco rock is going to drive so many people out of the hobby. Starting with dry rock is the worst way to start a tank especially for new hobbyists. They will be chased out of the hobby with all the problems that come with starting with dry rock. That’s why there is a huge uptick in Dino’s and cyano in the recent years