OysterCrete OysterReef Building Blocks

Even though aragocrete/oystercrete is thousands of times more porous that natural rocks and not no where near as heavy as the next closest type of live rock(the florida aquacultured) they are still fairly heavy for aquarium use.
We started testing various types of materials for using in our aragocrete/oystercrete to help lighten up the rocks(…)

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 Had a rather large set of thunderstorms blow thru the area over the past few days, so this gives us our first chance to see how our rocks weathered thru the rough sea’s.

 Onsite;

   As was hopefull, most all of the rocks were in same condition as left originally. The visibility was rather poor at maybe(…)

Just came back from offshore reef that belongs to a friend of mine. We hand placed a little over 50 pcs of aragocrete/oystercrete for a visual watch and testing the longterm growth rates of organisms, algae’s, crustaceans, fish life and anything else that occurs.

 These pieces of aragocrete and oystercrete were placed on an old fishing(…)

 Finally after testing over 40 different recipies finally came up with a recipie that after being cured correctly holds it shape, retains great strength and has plenty of surface area and voids to encourage massive amounts of micro and macro algae growths.

 These rocks when in testing on a friends existing reef had started growing organisms(…)

 _{This is a brief outline of some of our first manmade rocks created back in 2004, as taken from our original notes and studies.}

Created my first test rocks today using aragonite sand in two different grades, oyster shells, and portland cement.
The first several batches were trial and error, learning very quickly that the amount of(…)

I had the first pre-permit meeting with the Mississippi Dept. of Marine Resources and various other involved dept’s. to cover and discuss overall program and give information and get feedback on setting this program up as an aquaculture program and any requirements needed for said program from each dept.

 A few of the dept’s. at the(…)

Within these pages and post’s youll find generalized information, idea’s and just daily notes as they have come about in the process and enrichment of the OysterCrete program.

 We will slowly be converting all of our notes and journal’s from the past several years over to this public use Journal.