I began curing my Pukani dry rock with a 24 hour bleach bath followed by a 30 minute acid wash. I've had the rock in a Brute barrel of salt water with a heater and pump for about 12 weeks. I do 100% water changes every few weeks. I've been dosing LC every other day for about 3 weeks now. My ammonia is at .6 and phosphates are at .03. I'm using the red sea test kits. Is this rock considered cured or do my readings need to be .00 across the board? Should I be using a better testing process or kit, any suggestions?
Curing Rock
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Jimsreef, here is a link of my rebuild thread and how I went through this process. My results were good and I have no phosphate leaching now that the tank is up and running.
http://www.njreefers.org/threads/joels-175-gallon-re-build.91544/page-4
http://www.njreefers.org/threads/joels-175-gallon-re-build.91544/page-4
Any time that you cut short now will need to be duplicated in the tank. I would take your time with this step.
It is very, very likely that you actually do, but the aragonite sand it binding it up for you. Only time will tell.
I guess anything is possible but I have very little substrate(about an inch in the front part of the tank only)and maintain something like .02-.06 phosphates just using my refugium. Have not had to replace my GFO in about two months,
