Carribean Live Rock/Coral..

[FlaEagleFan]

Does anyone know about Carribean Live rock and coral?? I was at the LFS today and the owner had a piece of LR that was about 15lbs, a little white in color, but had all kindsa stuff growing on it.. A few different looking sponges, some corals neither of us had ever seen etc..etc...

Apparently a guy he knows went down to the Carribean south of the Keys and came back with it... "The guy has a license to harvest so its okay"..

Anyways, he is willing to sell it to me for about $100.

I figure its worth the money, but i dont know what all im getting with this rock...

I would estimate it to have about 10 different sized and colored sponges, and about another 10 different sized and colored corals growing on it. Nothing too big, but I can clearly see the following colors...

red
yellow
orange
blue
green
purple
pink

and several multi colors...

red/yellow
purple/white
orange/purple

some stripped some spotted...

Do you guys think this would be safe in my tank? Or is there too much un-known to risk it?

[FlaEagleFan]

anyone.....................anyone................. .

[Spanky]

"The guy has a license to harvest so its okay"..

nope

[know-it-all]

Originally Posted by Spanky

nope

exactly, havn't been able to harvest since '94

TBsaltwater has been able to do it, because they planted the rocks the're harvesting

[FlaEagleFan]

Now thats interesting.... He told me that the guy goes out with fish and wildlife and as long as they are there he can do it... hmmm....

[Spanky]

What? rotfl

F&W has time to go out with some guy to collect rock??

[Discdogge]

Originally Posted by Spanky

What? rotfl

F&W has time to go out with some guy to collect rock??

Only on the weekends


OP, I wouldn't risk it, besides chances are a lot of that colorful stuff may not be super healthy due to transit time.