Use of supplements including calcium, iodine, strontium, and trace elements promote health in and on the rock. Live rock requires patience, but with good handling and care it will develop beautiful coloration as it matures in your aquarium. Live Rock has a rugged beauty and offers a number of benefits to both reef and fish-only marine aquariums.

I've got about 200 small-med size mushrooms that have started to take over my tank. I've tried using a razor blade and it just takes forever. I've cleaned off one rock by pulling it out of the tank which was the way to go, but many of the others are not removable. Also, while cutting some of them off, they excrete goop which i'm guessing isn't ...

What is cured live rock? When the live rock is pulled out of the ocean or aquaculture vessel, it is generally packed into a large styro cooler and covered with wet newspapers, or some other way of keeping …

Removing the rock and letting the Sun take care of the issue would be the best solution. Just leave it away from a neighbours windows and in a high wind flow area and you should be good. Do not boil, pressure wash, etc. Just set it out in a tub and let Mother Nature take over.

Is it possible to remove live rocks from my tank, put in a RO DI water basket, srub it and thread it with peroxide there and then put it back into my tank? Guy of …

Eventually it should be all covered with coralline algae. For me it took over a year for coral algae to start showing up. On one of my tanks I did use bleached rock and doses this: Coralline Algae in a Bottle + Nitrifying Bacteria for Saltwater Aquariums, Pink Fusion Strain . Not sure if this helped at all or if it was the time but 4 months ...

Dec 23, 2004. #3. The rock should last for a very long time, thouogh it will absorb alot of the nutrients and detrius that we don't want in our tanks. So I suggest blasting the rock with a PH or a turkey baster when you do your maintainance. This will make the LR more efficient, and last longer.

Submerse the new rock into a bucket filled with saltwater with a specific gravity of 1.035 to 1.040 for one minute. Any invertebrates including mantis shrimp, bristle worms, and crabs will quickly evacuate from the rock and into the bucket of water.? Remove the live rock from the bucket and sort through the invertebrates in the bucket.

You should do a 20% water change every month. Twice a month if you have an tank overcrowded with fish or corals. Water flow is extremely important for your live rock and you reef tank. The more flow the better. You should spend a little more and get the bigger pump when you are selecting the pump for your tank.

Live rock will typically have a purple coloration, which is seen on the vast majority. This purple coloring is actually coralline algae. Coralline algae are awesome in color and are also very beneficial, reducing nutrients that pest algae utilize to would grow and thrive. Purchasing live rock is recommended to begin your aquarium's ...

They are most commonly dealt with by a Harlequin shrimp, who will hunt for the stars. On its own, the harlequin shrimp is a stunning invertebrate, however its diet is so specific the only way that you can …

Give Live Rocks bleach bath to keep it clean. To cure your live aquarium rock, give it a bleach bath. You have to follow the detailed procedure for this. Take out the rocks from your aquarium and put them in a separate container. Make a bleach bath, about 2-3 cups per 5 gallons of tap water.

If you want to completely clean up rock that has a bunch of unwanted aiptasia, majano, algae, trash palys, etc and don't care if you kill the bacteria in the rock, a bleach bath ( 2-3 cups per 5 gallons of fresh water ) for 24 hours. Repeat if needed. Then do a freshwater bath with a dechlorinator solution at 5-6 times the recommended dosage.

It is not the rock you are putting in but the bacteria you are removing with the old rock. You can put the new rock in the sump for a while then remove some, gradually. You don't want to remove to much at one time because the more you remove the more bacteria you remove. If you use cured live rock you can remove one and add one.

We started off by giving the rock an acid bath for about 15 minutes, then onto a bath in bleach for about a week. It is important to note that we did fully rinse the rock after the acid soak, and allowed the rock to dry completely making the acid inert. The results we found were pretty amazing, and there are some definite benefits to using the ...

Inspect all your pieces of live rock, inspecting for pests, nuisance algae, or dead organisms. Black patches are usually a dead animal. Scrub the dead pieces and remove any pest you can find. Rinse in clean RO/DI water. Place each rock in the container/bin. Fill with clean, freshly mixed saltwater at 1.025 SG.

The trick is to remove a thin layer of rock with the coral. Live rock breaks apart easily and scraping a small amount of the surface off the rock won't hurt anything. This also helps with gluing the pieces back down. They are already attached to a thin layer of rock so you can just superglue them anywhere.

After the arrival of the live rock rinse the live rock in a 5 gallon buck with freshly mixed saltwater to remove any debris or died of organic matter. (Optional Step) Undesired critters (we really don't like the word unwanted pests as every creature has a purpose in life) can be removed by submerging the live rock into a saltmix of 1.035 to 1 ...

Remove all the debris from the rock before placing it in your curing container. You can use simple tools, like an old toothbrush, to scrub off …

Cut off the plug on the bottom side of your coral and use epoxy putty and put it over the rock in the shape that will fit the rock ( our pick: Gorilla All Purpose Epoxy Putty) Then place the coral into the putty in the same place and your work is done. On the other hand, you can also use super glue gel to attach them.

I received live rock from a local person a few months back. Then I noticed my fish got some type of bacterial infection and removed them and started treating them for copper. I was planning on adding them back after the 4-6 week period and I noticed my coral not looking too good. Every 4 days...

I had a bin full of algae infested live rock. I scrubbed it with a brush to get the majority off then added a bottle of peroxide to the bin with the rock in it. I added a power head for movement and let it sit. A couple of days later you couldn't find a single trace of algae on the rock, it worked awesome to completely remove the algae.

Step 1 – Prepare a setup to cure live rock. Most times you will want a completely separate setup for the curing process. Before your rock arrives, get your set up ready. It will need to be heated, well filtered, with a way to circulate and move the water (powerheads, submersible pumps, air stones), and a protein skimmer.

Use a quality carbon (such as ROX 0.8) and either Seachem Cuprisorb or TLF Metalsorb UHC. This should reduce the copper amount. The brass fitting prob did not leech too much. You can also replace the sand at this time. Test for copper now and again in a few weeks and see how it goes. Apr 13, 2019.

Yes, cuprisorb will help to pull copper out but you need to check for copper levels before adding in inverts. Perhaps you overlooked my comment. I believe in testing because copper can slowly leach out of rock and sand. It will get stuck in places and eventually leach out.

What is live rock? The term "live rock" refers to the many diverse organisms already taking up residence on a piece of rock removed from the ocean or from an aquarium store reef tank. Live rock …

Rinse each piece of live rock in a small bucket of saltwater to remove any loose organic matter, debris, or sand. Place live rock into the aquarium to create a stable foundation …

Bleach is good for removing dead organic matter. You can put it into bleach and RODI for a day or so (it will not take much bleach). Afterwards, I would rinse the rock and soak in RODI to get any bleach out. Acid plus RODI is good for removing phosphates from the rock. Just remember that HCl + CaCO3 = CaCl2 + CO2.

Well, you can test it at home with 2 easy methods. First off, hold the rock in your hand and bring it close to your nose. If you smell a mild ocean tide-like odor, your rock is good to go. However, if you feel a strong stinky smell like rotten fish, it's alarming, and your rock needs a cure. Secondly, the more scientific approach to testing a ...

Why does live rock have to be cured? How to cure live rock? Step 1 - Prepare a setup to cure live rock. Step 2 - Prepare live rock before curing. Step 3 - The curing process. Step 4 - Ensure the rock is …