So if there was an option where you could get pest free live rock for a few more dollars a pound would you do that or save the cash and deal with the pests later?
These are very good points, thank you.
All great points, my thoughts were to cure the rock for a some time, the minimum I had in mind was 5 months.... at first. Enough time for it to have a nice bacteria culture. I'm not thinking of it as necessarily a large scale operation at first, although I do have some things in mind to scale. Of course it would take over a year before I could gather and culture enough to supply a large demand.
I think some people may want it, myself included, for at least some setups. Nice to have things you want already growing (coralline, etc.). However it has to accompany pest-free live stock though, which is the challenge.
The only 2 main pests we want to try and avoid would be flatworms and aptasia. This being said. No human can prevent aptasia and this is why...it is microscopic. If you take one scraping of corraline from an unknown tank, you may get aptasia. So unless you went complete dry roock and killed the live sand with fresh water for a few days then quarantined everything you stuck in your tank, you could still sneeze and get it lol. One good thing to do when you get liverock is do a freshwater/then seachem coral dip/then freshwater again dip. Then just put it in.
bristle worms are your friend!
Bristle worms, yes. Well most Polychaete are good in the tank. I’d prefer no Pherecardia, Hermodice Fire worms. Certainly no Flatworms!
