Dry Rock Question/info/help thingie

[Sasquatch]

Does anybody have a tank that was started with only dry rock and NOT seeded with LR, I would really like to see start and mature pictures if you'd be so kind! Thanks

 

[Peppie]

I am pretty sure that is how Eric & Becca started their tank. Check out his build.
If ya ask real nice like I am sure he has got more pics than he has posted.

I myself cheated.

 

[Sasquatch]

I am pretty sure that is how Eric & Becca started their tank. Check out his build.
If ya ask real nice like I am sure he has got more pics than he has posted.

I myself cheated.

did you hate yourself the next day?
Sorry to be a pain but what are Eric and Becca's usernames, search didn't work

 

[jrgilles]

username is eww

 

[Sasquatch]

like in ba ba ewe? oh my!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks!

 

[eww]

If your having trouble finding it, try the link in our signature...

 

[Sasquatch]

If your having trouble finding it, try the link in our signature...

Thank eww lol I read about half last night, so far not any details that really helped. I'll finish it off tonight :kiss:

 

[Guerry]

I did my wifes tank with DIY rock it was a night mare to start, trying to keep up with Alk was onething but then the po4 became the nightmare. a year in it's looking pretty good

 

[Sasquatch]

I did my wifes tank with DIY rock it was a night mare to start, trying to keep up with Alk was onething but then the po4 became the nightmare. a year in it's looking pretty good

so you didn't deed it with real rock? where could I find a pic?

 

[TheKraken]

I seeded with sand from a friend tanking down a tank and frag plugs (buy the plug, get coral for free!) in trades and purchases. I like Coraline algae so this was a start.

 

[TJL]

Hey Sas, Jeff (DolphinLvr) started his 180g off with all dry Marco Rock and believe it was almost a year before adding a few pieces of LR up top for some color.

Cheers, Todd

 

[Sasquatch]

I seeded with sand from a friend tanking down a tank and frag plugs (buy the plug, get coral for free!) in trades and purchases. I like Coraline algae so this was a start.

Thanks Kraken, a neighborly cup of sand here and there can be done lol

 

[Sasquatch]

Hey Sas, Jeff (DolphinLvr) started his 180g off with all dry Marco Rock and believe it was almost a year before adding a few pieces of LR up top for some color.

Cheers, Todd

Thaks Todd! I'll go and squirt through the thread now

 

[Sasquatch]

seeing very similar results from several tanks, hair algae! comes the question?? this is dead rock, is it treated from the supplier? if not its dead rock full of dead crap?

 

[mojoreef]

All rock whether live or dead is going to be full of dead crap. A live rock from the ocean is basically a dead coral fragment that has Ben being crapped on for hundreds if annotated thousands of years. Then its occupied by critters that live and die in it. Eventually taken over by sponges that begin to die when it is removed from the water.

Dead rock can be the same unless it has been cooked for period of time. Either way organics are Going to have burn off and until that is used up it will feed any algae. Not to sure on the Marco as it has been sitting on land and in an aquafer for milling years, so not much organic their.

On a side note all aragonite rock or sand is super saturated with phosphate regardless do to natural processes. It just needs bacteria to create an anaerobic zone for it to release.


Mojo

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[Sasquatch]

All rock whether live or dead is going to be full of dead crap. A live rock from the ocean is basically a dead coral fragment that has Ben being crapped on for hundreds if annotated thousands of years. Then its occupied by critters that live and die in it. Eventually taken over by sponges that begin to die when it is removed from the water.

Dead rock can be the same unless it has been cooked for period of time. Either way organics are Going to have burn off and until that is used up it will feed any algae. Not to sure on the Marco as it has been sitting on land and in an aquafer for milling years, so not much organic their.

On a side note all aragonite rock or sand is super saturated with phosphate regardless do to natural processes. It just needs bacteria to create an anaerobic zone for it to release.


Mojo

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thats what I thought, so how effective is an acid wash?