Originally Posted by
dtyharry
Sorry floyd for going off track! Aeros is wrong about surface area. A sand bed has vastly more surface area than any amount of live rock you could put in an aquarium. It does not need to be a deep sand bed if you do not require it to carry out nitrate removal, which you don't if you run a scrubber.
I guess you have to ask why you use 'live' rock in the first place. If you are going to bake it in the sun for weeks it is just rock not live.
How about creating an artificial reef look or foam rock. Let's not pretend live rock is the miracle worker some people think it is.