My tank has been up for about 2 weeks, it has 50 pounds of aragonite sand. I have two small pieces of live rock, each weighing about 4 pounds. I bought the second piece of rock today, it has a beautiful buttok polyp on it. I believe it is a protopalythoa sp. not sure, but I found a picture on the internet that looks an awful lot like it and that is what it was. My tank is not fully cycled, I went to buy a piece of live rock. I saw this live rock with the polyp attached and decided to take a chance. The owner of the store said that the rock was in his nano until he broke it down. He also told me that the polyp was on his first piece of live rock in the nano, so it has lived through one cycle. I hope it makes it through this one also.
Now, I know that i should have much more rock than I have in my tank. I need around 100 pounds of rock, but at $4.50 a pound I do not have the money to put that much rock in. I am considering DIY rock using cement, oyster shell, and rock salt. Until I decide whether to go this route or not I am adding a small piece of rock waiting for the ammonia and nitrites to go down, adding another small piece etc. I do not agree with adding all of the live rock at once, simply because that will cause an ammonia spike that very little can live through. I want as many critters to make it through the cycle as possible, so I am allowing the tank to cycle with each rock I add.
Anyway, I am excited about this new addition, with my first coral attached. The rock also has beautifull coraline growing on it, deep purple, red, light purple. It looks like three or four different types of coraline. I will be glad when that stuff starts growing on my tank instead of these dreaded diatoms.
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