south florida and calcium reactors

[CiXeL]

ok i have not used a calcium reactor but ive seen them in use and i know a certain amount about them.

i just relocated from los angeles to south florida and what i want to know is, the coral sand and gravel i find everywhere down here can i use it in a calcium reactor instead of buying media? if so that basically means my backyard is made out of money isnt it?

i also noticed that since they dont have real ROCKS here and they're all pieces of dead coral skeleton i have endless pieces of rock to glue frags to dont i?

and yes i am well aware it is illegal to take liverock from the ocean.

 

[Anonymous]

Any calcium carbonate that does not have significant of impurity can pretty much used as the medium for ca rxtor. As long as it does not leak phosphate/nitrate/heavy metal, you are in good shape.

 

[CiXeL]

ashes to ashes dust to dust i guess

all of south florida was once one big gigantic reef which is what all the rocks are made of. thered be kind of a cool element to the fact that all my frags would be growing from the remains of a massive ancient coral reef.

 

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, there is just not much calcium being created after the solar system was formed, so it must be recycled somehow.

 

[Speckled Grouper]

Remember though, Homestead is a big farming area, I would be concerned about fertilizer in the ground.