Rockscape
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About the lightest thing you're going to find commercially available these days is the brand name "Real Reef rock", which is made from crushed/powdered coral or other aragonite and binders.
There are lighter rocks out there, but they'll have been things like Fiji or Tonga or Marshall island live rock, and you're liable to pay through the nose for them IF you can even find someone willing to part with them, since they've been banned for import/export for some time now. There's also Pukani, which is "dead rock", and about the lightest of the type you can get, but it's also now "discontinued" and quite rare as well.
There are lighter rocks out there, but they'll have been things like Fiji or Tonga or Marshall island live rock, and you're liable to pay through the nose for them IF you can even find someone willing to part with them, since they've been banned for import/export for some time now. There's also Pukani, which is "dead rock", and about the lightest of the type you can get, but it's also now "discontinued" and quite rare as well.
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You just need a lot of sand and super glue. It’ll pretty much hold up anything is you have enough
I feel the white-looking rocks are lighter than the purple live rocks. But will check out the real reef rock you posted
I guess it shouldnt be too much of a problem for me cause it’ll be pretty small
Not for nothing the sand and superglue trick works! I have thin plate structures in my tank formed this very way.
Not that I’d ever need another project but .. if it was me I would first make the structure from pvc sheet and pipe - hollow and strong - you could build very long unsupported spans. And I’d glue that to a flat sheet of pvc that would go under the sand which would avoid it tipping.
I would then cover that with sand ( assume the solvent would enable that ) and then use superglue to add fragments of rocks to mask the shape of the pipe work.
You could also try acrylic but I getting sand to stick would be harder.
I would finish it by wrapping it in xmas lights.
Rocks would be too heavy for anything but shorter spans in my experience.
Here’s the glue to get - they offer an R2R discount last I checked and below that a span I created using just sand and superglue.
Not that I’d ever need another project but .. if it was me I would first make the structure from pvc sheet and pipe - hollow and strong - you could build very long unsupported spans. And I’d glue that to a flat sheet of pvc that would go under the sand which would avoid it tipping.
I would then cover that with sand ( assume the solvent would enable that ) and then use superglue to add fragments of rocks to mask the shape of the pipe work.
You could also try acrylic but I getting sand to stick would be harder.
I would finish it by wrapping it in xmas lights.
Rocks would be too heavy for anything but shorter spans in my experience.
Here’s the glue to get - they offer an R2R discount last I checked and below that a span I created using just sand and superglue.
The pvc trick was the reasoj why I wonder if there’s rocks that lighter than others in the 1st place. But I will definitely wrap them in christmas light though
pukani rock is really light...but good luck finding it.
Yeah - right in that one - if you’re using it do it outside and use a fan to blow the fumes away and / or breathing apparatus. Ask me how I know -
