Live Rock in the OVEN?

[Jeepguy242]

Looking down and shaking my head... smh

you do it your way dude, i have done it mine for a long time....

 

[MnFish1]

What is lost here - is that - if you kill everything on your 'rock' you might as well have bought dead rock in the first place. It seems (to me) to not make sense. There are lots of places that sell 'dry rock'. There is no point to buying live rock and then killing everything on it. Whether you like your rock sparkly white or not - sooner or later its gonna be covered by algae, Coral, etc. This seems like a joke....

 

[Jeepguy242]

What is lost here - is that - if you kill everything on your 'rock' you might as well have bought dead rock in the first place. It seems (to me) to not make sense. There are lots of places that sell 'dry rock'. There is no point to buying live rock and then killing everything on it. Whether you like your rock sparkly white or not - sooner or later its gonna be covered by algae, Coral, etc. This seems like a joke....

What about someone else’s problem live rock that you can get for cheaper than dry rock.

I think what is lost here is the people that can’t see the reason we want to make dry rock in the first place

 

[Streetcred]

If you do want to actually heat sterilize your rock you could do it in a large pressure cooker (find a large used one at a thrift shop).

LOL ! Careful for the FBI ! ;-)

 

[Streetcred]

What about someone else’s problem live rock that you can get for cheaper than dry rock.

I think what is lost here is the people that can’t see the reason we want to make dry rock in the first place

Cure it in the proper way to retain the effectiveness. A couple ml of hydrogen peroxide in sea water will chase out any nasties pretty quickly.

 

[wmwesty]

Please forgive me if I'm not understanding but isn't all this bleaching, baking, sun drying defeating the purpose of starting with live rock? Why not just start from scratch and cure some dry rock?

Thank goodness you have restored my faith why on earth, would you kill live rock, !!! Kind of defeats its very purpose

 

[Fishfeet57]

What is lost here - is that - if you kill everything on your 'rock' you might as well have bought dead rock in the first place. It seems (to me) to not make sense. There are lots of places that sell 'dry rock'. There is no point to buying live rock and then killing everything on it. Whether you like your rock sparkly white or not - sooner or later its gonna be covered by algae, Coral, etc. This seems like a joke....

I think it is a joke.. and a sad one at that... the purpose of useing LIVE rock is for the living organisms and algae to condition and filter the water naturally,as well as being a benefit to the fish.but I guess some people don't want to learn anything.

 

[DSC reef]

I think it is a joke.. and a sad one at that... the purpose of useing LIVE rock is for the living organisms and algae to condition and filter the water naturally,as well as being a benefit to the fish.but I guess some people don't want to learn anything.

Or you can look at it as there are many ways to run a reef tank and just because it's different from your approach doesn't make it wrong. Plenty of nice tanks that never started with real live rock. Because someone runs there tank different than you doesn't mean they don't want to learn. I will never use real live rock again. Seeded rock with bacteria from a reputable source is all I will ever use.

 

[MnFish1]

What about someone else’s problem live rock that you can get for cheaper than dry rock.
I think what is lost here is the people that can’t see the reason we want to make dry rock in the first place

That makes sense. It just seems like this has become the norm - rather then the situation you're talking about.

 

[Fourstars]

Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water.

 

[Fishfeet57]

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Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water.

Ok.. I understand what thay are saying... but seriously killing everything on the rock is just nuts.. I set up my 40 gallon I used base rock and used live rock.. I cleaned the rock with a 30 second swishing in fresh water and vinegar... all the old nasty stuff came off and now look at the rock 3 Months later... it's beautiful, lots of growth of coraline algae, I don't have any pests

 

[Fudsey]

Yes but was any of that rock infested with Aiptasia or Bristle worms? Bubble algae or cyano? These things are not going to come off completely with a 30 sec swishing in vinegar and water and then they will infest your new tank.

 

[Fishfeet57]

Yes but was any of that rock infested with Aiptasia or Bristle worms? Bubble algae or cyano? These things are not going to come off completely with a 30 sec swishing in vinegar and water and then they will infest your new tank.

Yes... all in the bottom of the bucket...

 

[Jeepguy242]

Yes but was any of that rock infested with Aiptasia or Bristle worms? Bubble algae or cyano? These things are not going to come off completely with a 30 sec swishing in vinegar and water and then they will infest your new tank.

we will see what his tank looks like in a year...... already looks like some GHA starting on the right side of his tank....


3 months and he hasn't even been thru the "ugly" stage yet...

 

[Fourstars]

Looks like a great start. Like the reefscape!

 

[Fishfeet57]

Yes... all in the bottom of the bucket...

I need to say.. I'm taking about a 5 gallon bucket 3 gallons of water 1 gallon of white distilled vinegar... the PH is still extremely acidic..

 

[Fishfeet57]

Looks like a great start. Like the reefscape!

Thanks. .

 

[Jeepguy242]

I need to say.. I'm taking about a 5 gallon bucket 3 gallons of water 1 gallon of white distilled vinegar... the PH is still extremely acidic..

so you did use something to kill off your live rock...

 

[Jeepguy242]

and the scape does look really good

 

[Jeepguy242]

i would get that foam filter off of that powerhead... the one in the center... its going to become a pain to clean and a nitrate sink...