Unhappy with Jack's

[JR]

Been setting up a 125gal Reef tank this week. Order my live rock from Jack's Monday. Any order over a hun lbs is 4.99 a lb. went to pick it up today. The manager said his employee miss spoke It is 6.99 a pound. I told him that is on him I paid for 200 lb all ready and that is what you are going to give me. I gave him my paper work that said 200lb live rock Paid on 8-11-13. It got nasty. I got my liverock. That will be the last time I go there.

[Mugwump]

dang...stuff ain't cheap is it.....200lbs?...what size?

[JR]

No its not. If you just buy a few pounds It is 7.99 a pound. I use 1 and a half to 2 lbs per gallon. I am putting 150lbs in the main tank and 50 in the sump. The sump is a 55 gal tank. The rock I buy is 1 to 5 lbs each peace. Will have pics as soon as it is set up

[Frank The Plumber]

I used to buy a hundred pounds of live and a hundred pounds of the Carib Sea dead rock from channel projects etc. The dead was $1.50 a pound. I would put the dead as a base and the live above it. Within 6 months it was all pretty much the same. I could sell the dead as decent live base rock and had people clamouring for it. If I put it in a tank with soft corals or polyps in there it would be better in 6 months than the live rock itself.