Well this is turning out to be an exciting weekend, I will be starting the process to setting up my first tank :bigsmile: My rock that I am using is dried from another reefer's tank that had been torn down. On the rock there is some of what I believe is dried plant material, picks off the rock. I am thinking of at least cleaning that off with a nylon brush, that has been used for only aquarium use. How well should I clean the stuff off of my rock? I will try to post a couple of pictures of what I am talking about. Will appoligize about the quaility of the pictures ahead of time since they were taken with the camera on my phone and lighting is not all that great. But hopefully it will be enough to show what I am talking about. Also will include a couple of shots of what I am thinking for my rock, aiming towards doing an islands scape. Will have to see how it looks when placing it into the tank. Thanks
How much should I clean my dry rock off
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Devonjevon
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Make sure you don't use the brass wire brushes.
Are you setting everything up this weekend?
You have dead organisms on your rock and this will start to decay when you put it in your tank. Will add phosphates to your tank.
If your not gonna fill the tank up with water this weekend I would start to cure the rock in a Rubbermaid container ASAP. This will allow die off to take place in the rubbermaid instead of your display. Your rock can be cured in your display as well. I wouldn't put any sand or substrate in your tank if you decide to do it that way. Your rocks will be dirty and that diets gonna fall off onto your sand and it's just easier to siphone off without sand.
With that said I didn't do any of what I just suggested to you. It just took alot longer for my tank to cycle and ammonia to reach 0
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Are you setting everything up this weekend?
You have dead organisms on your rock and this will start to decay when you put it in your tank. Will add phosphates to your tank.
If your not gonna fill the tank up with water this weekend I would start to cure the rock in a Rubbermaid container ASAP. This will allow die off to take place in the rubbermaid instead of your display. Your rock can be cured in your display as well. I wouldn't put any sand or substrate in your tank if you decide to do it that way. Your rocks will be dirty and that diets gonna fall off onto your sand and it's just easier to siphone off without sand.
With that said I didn't do any of what I just suggested to you. It just took alot longer for my tank to cycle and ammonia to reach 0
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miyags
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Nice looking rocks. Looks like dried hair algae, give them a scrub, then rinse, and your good to go. 1 tip. when I did my rock work it was picture perfect, but there were no flat spots on top or ledges in the middle to place corals on. When I redid my rocks they didn't look so good until i added my corals. You have to think two steps ahead with every thing in reefing!!! Good Luck @ Have Fun!!!
You can also take them to the car wash and use the pressure washer. Just make sure you run a clean rinse through the wand before spraying the rocks. Take pix of you lay out so you can recreate it. It looks real nice.
Thanks everyone, have taken several pictures of my lay out and will probably take some more before I take it apart to clean the rock up some. I am planning that I will be going through a long cycle, have planned that from the start but will give me plenty of time to plan and save for my fish :smile: Busy day ahead of me lol time to get some coffee and get some work done before my help comes.
