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Who would have thought making your own rocks could be so interesting!! Look forward to seeing them finally in your tank. Great job and very encouraging. Go girl 👍👍
So interesting and a great idea because in USA live rock is also so expensive since you buy it by the pound, so the big heavy ones cost so much. That was an awesome idea...
crushed oystershell (Animal/farm FEED STORES) and concrete @ 1/3 ratio makes really pourous rock but make sure when u cover it up u put a lid on it and dampen and leave it a few days before u dig it out so it can cure
you doing a great job. Would recommend you stay away from that cement and use type 1 white cement.of 42.5 strengh to 52.5 as they do tend to be more durable in the long run and also has a more natural look once it is done
@@SimpleAquariumsLauren ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0G20r8MouW4.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
Nice work, these look great! So good to discover more Aussie reef youtubers. :) Two quick q's for you; What cement did you use? Just gen purpose stuff? And, where did you get the shell grit ? Thanks!
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.
WOW, that was like digging for dinosaur bones..lol. nothing better that a women thats not afraid to get her hands dirty! Great video, never seen this before, new concept. I know your trying to avoid the skimmer, but Can't go wrong with a protein skimmer to pull out anything that might be within water column as a byproduct of this theory. Time will tell. But still awesome! Keep those videos rolling!
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. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WJdl9BgDmNQ.html
Depending on how difficult they are to ship, you should look into making these rocks to sell. Undercut the pet store by a few dollars and people will be buying yours. 🤑
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!
I don't think that this rock will filter the water like live rock would in a reef. It looks nice but I don't see how it will aid in biological filtration.
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.
