Live dry rock?
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Its all dead coral, you can use it if you want to.
I am aware that it is dead, but I was going to purchase live rock, and place them both in the tank, hoping over a period of time this will begin to grow bacteria. Just wanting to know if it will grow bacteria and turn into live rock
Yes, it will grow bacteria in and on it.
Feltman
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Most things you put in will develop the beneficial bacteria. The main reason they use the rock they do is because of its porous nature so there is more surface area meaning you need signicanfly less rock for the same benefit. Less rock allows for a more open design reducing dead spots reducing detritus buildup reducing nutrients. I am not sure how porus that coral will be but it will provide something
Cool, thanks for all of the help, I appreciate it. I had another question regarding old equipment...I have old crushed coral/shells as a substrate. I mentioned this to a gentlemen at a local pet store and he suggest that I should not use it, because it has lost its beneficial attributes. Is this true? Does it matter if I am going to use live rock?
Feltman
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No u can still use it I'd cure both before cycling to help kill off anything dead on them before you begin the cycle to bring it all back to life. The downside to crushed coral over sand is it tends to trap detritus a lot more and limits fish as some require a sandbed and crush coral generally won't work as a substitute for fish but in the end do the job for filtration.
Pfisherman
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I would use it only in a FOWLR tank. There is a good chance of this leaching copper if it were used back in the day, those types of coral skeletons are also notorious for being phosphate bombs.
I plan on only doing a FOWLR tank, and was going to cure the before adding them. I read that putting them in a separate tank, with salt water and let them sit for a week or how ever long it takes to have no phosphates in the water. Then they are safe to add. Perhaps that was incorrect, I am quite a noob to this!
Pfisherman
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We're they in a tank befor?
Yeah, they were in my dads tank back in the late 90's. Once his tank was down he rinsed them off, and placed them in a 5 gallon bucket for the past 15 years haha. And the tank did not die for any other reason that it got too hot, and he just threw in the towel and took the tank down. He also was using just tap water not RO.
