I've made the decision to replace my rock in my tank. My past rock was Marco rocks, while that made a nice aquascaping rock, I wasn't going to have another year or so of white rock. I decided to give the Caribsea Life Rock a try.
I ordered a 40# box of shelf rock, 40# of regular, and 20# box of shapes. I think the coloring is pretty good, I chose this over some of the other colored rock, as it wasn't a solid purple color. The rock is fairly heavy, while the outside surface of the rock is quite random and will make stacking similar to the rock like Marco rocks... The rock is solid on the interior...... I always thought the Marco Rocks didn't have enough thick sections for good anaerobic areas in the rock. I'm probably going to need one more box of rock.
The Shelf Rock and Regular Rock came indiviually wrapped in a brown wrapping paper.
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The Shapes Rock came wrapped in bubble wrap and Styrofoam peanuts
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The Shapes rock really should have had more protection, two of the 5 pieces had broken up......but it should be easily repaired with a little glue/epoxy. This was an arch
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Here are shots of the rest of the rock......
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The shelf rock has one side that is flat. Which will make the base nice, but I'm going to give these some feet, so they don't fit flat on the bottom of the glass.
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