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2. Live rock - Wikipedia

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   This rock is either maricultured and sold as live rock, or can be purchased and grown in the home aquarium. Base rock can also be made from artificial rock called aragocrete, which is a hand made concrete from combining crushed aragonite, sand, and Portland cement. After allowing the cement to dry, the pieces are sometimes acid washed to ...

3. Aquascaping - Wikipedia

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   Aquascaping is the craft of arranging aquatic plants, as well as rocks, stones, cavework, or driftwood, in an aesthetically pleasing manner within an aquarium—in effect, gardening under water. Aquascape designs include a number of distinct styles, including the garden-like Dutch style and the Japanese-inspired nature style. [1]

4. Oregon Coast Aquarium - Wikipedia

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   The Aquarium also exhibits two turkey vultures in a separate outdoor area. Outdoor exhibits also showcase marine mammal species native to the Oregon Coast, including sea otters, harbor seals, and sea lions. There is even a coastal cave that houses a giant Pacific octopus. The rocks in the outdoor exhibit are artificial rocks constructed of ...

5. Artificial reef - Wikipedia

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   Artificial reefs to increase fish yields or for algaculture began no later than 17th-century Japan, when rubble and rocks were used to grow kelp. [17] The earliest recorded artificial reef in the United States is from the 1830s, when logs from huts were used off the coast of South Carolina to improve fishing. [ 18 ]

6. Electrified reef - Wikipedia

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   An electric reef (also electrified reef) is an artificial reef made from biorock, being limestone that forms rapidly in seawater on a metal structure from dissolved minerals in the presence of a small electric current. The first reefs of this type were created by Wolf Hilbertz and Thomas J. Goreau in the 1980s. By 2011 there were examples in ...

7. List of diving environments by type - Wikipedia

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   Reef – Shoal of rock, coral, or other material lying beneath the surface of water Artificial reef – Human-made underwater structure that functions as a reef; Coral reef – Outcrop of rock in the sea formed by the growth and deposit of stony coral skeletons; Rocky reef – Natural reef of rock; Pinnacle (diving) – Distinct high point on a ...