Living rocks : reproducing the natural habitat of your marine species

Living rocks : reproducing the natural habitat of your marine species

With the development of the aquarium industry, the rise of maintenance systems based on skimmer and live rocks is omnipresent.
As you surely know, live rocks have an advantage in terms of bacterial support, living space or even support for corals.
Marine species such as fish particularly like to grow in an environment with hiding places.
This base of the aquarium allows the natural habitat of aquatic animals to be recreated as much as possible.
But that’s not all, it allows to shelter almost all the marine life of the aquarium by enclosing a diversified ecosystem of life. Especially with coralline algae, bacteria, worms, corals etc… All these parameters result in a better water quality of the aquarium.

To choose the most suitable live rocks for your aquarium, it is best to categorize your preferences according to price, origin, structure and shape.
– The best known are live rocks from Indonesia with good porosity, different shapes.
It is a coral rock with a rich surface.
– Mediterranean rocks are limestone rocks with little variety of shapes but they have enough biodiversity to be live rocks in your aquariums.
– The reconstituted rocks are often neutral and nevertheless allow to achieve a buffer effect in the aquarium. Their weak point concerns the almost non-existent biodiversity.
There remains the possibility to buy non-living rocks for your aquarium. This solution requires few constraints with no undesirable surprises.

But without biodiversity ; the natural habitat is not reproduced correctly. We then advise you to introduce sponges or micro fauna yourself to establish stability in your aquarium.
Don’t forget to feed with good quality phytoplankton to boost development.
In particular, you can use Phytofeast which will help to develop biodiversity.