When to put rock into system after cure

[geosReef]

I’ve cured my rock by doing the acid and bleach cure. The rock was from somebody on Facebook. Bought 150lbs. I’m cycling in a brute for the past month and my test from api (nitrite nitrate and ammonia) are zeroing out and my phosphates from Hannah is 0.53 ppm. Should I do a water change or should I just put it in the display.

 

[Jekyl]

I’ve cured my rock by doing the acid and bleach cure. The rock was from somebody on Facebook. Bought 150lbs. I’m cycling in a brute for the past month and my test from api (nitrite nitrate and ammonia) are zeroing out and my phosphates from Hannah is 0.53 ppm. Should I do a water change or should I just put it in the display.

Don't use the water but the rocks can go at any time.

 

[geosReef]

Don't use the water but the rocks can go at any time.

Will it effect any fish or coral?

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

If you were feeding it enough ammonia you should be reading nitrate. A big old bacteria colony doesn't grow with limited food.

 

[InactiveAcct]

I’ve cured my rock by doing the acid and bleach cure. The rock was from somebody on Facebook. Bought 150lbs. I’m cycling in a brute for the past month and my test from api (nitrite nitrate and ammonia) are zeroing out and my phosphates from Hannah is 0.53 ppm. Should I do a water change or should I just put it in the display.

I don’t have much to add regarding your water change, except I’d probably double check chlorine levels after any bleach treatment

I’m curious about what you mean by acid and bleach. Typically we see folks do either acid only or bleach only. Muriatic acid + sodium hypochlorite bleach = extremely hazardous/ potentially fatal chlorine situation. This killed the employee of a big chain restaurant by accident a few years ago when one employee cleaned an area with bleach and later on another employee cleaned the same area with an acid

 

[geosReef]

I don’t have much to add regarding your water change, except I’d probably double check chlorine levels after any bleach treatment

I’m curious about what you mean by acid and bleach. Typically we see folks do either acid only or bleach only. Muriatic acid + sodium hypochlorite bleach = extremely hazardous/ potentially fatal chlorine situation. This killed the employee of a big chain restaurant by accident a few years ago when one employee cleaned an area with bleach and later on another employee cleaned the same area with an acid

I’ve seen videos on YouTube from brs that does a n acid and bleach cure so I follow. After I did I rinsed the up with a hose and left it outside for about a month and then put it in rodi water for a month checking for chlorine water change with Rodi until chlorine was gone (which I didn’t test for chlorine since day 1) after that I started the cycle in a brute

 

[geosReef]

If you were feeding it enough ammonia you should be reading nitrate. A big old bacteria colony doesn't grow with limited food.

I added water from my tank to the brute and did a clean water change last week and the one before

 

[jpark457]

If it was outside for a month, the chlorine is long gone. Regardless of what you did to the rock re cycling or just soaking, it’s safe to go in a tank. If you cycled it great, if not it’s basically just dry rock.

 

[jpark457]

Ditch the water and just move the rock over. The water may have undesirable stuff in it but doing a 100% water change by just moving the rock over is a great way to avoid it. It may still have some phos that comes out, people have various thoughts about that. I kind of think it’s fine. I’m doing basically the same thing in the next few days.