How often to ghost feed cycling dry rock?

[UltraKelius]

Hi all,

I’ve had some dry rock cycling in tubs in the garage for around three months now while I work on my upgrade. The upgrade is taking quite a while and I’m in no rush to get it done either. As the rocks are in tubs with no fish or light source, how often should I be adding food? The rock completed a cycle a month or so ago. Should I be ghost feeding it say once a week with some flake food or something?

Many thanks

 

[TangerineSpeedo]

Ideally you would want to match you new bio-load with your new rock. But if you are far away from adding it to a new tank don’t worry about it. The main thing is to keep you aerobic bacteria in a healthy state. It will grow to the needs of the new tank. So I would actually dose liquid ammonia once a week, that way you won't have any detritus build up. It would be a completely different story if it was actual live rock. but since this is dry, this is how I would do it.

 

[UltraKelius]

Ideally you would want to match you new bio-load with your new rock. But if you are far away from adding it to a new tank don’t worry about it. The main thing is to keep you aerobic bacteria in a healthy state. It will grow to the needs of the new tank. So I would actually dose liquid ammonia once a week, that way you won't have any detritus build up. It would be a completely different story if it was actual live rock. but since this is dry, this is how I would do it.

Amazing thank you, I will give that a go!