| StirCrazy |
08-20-2005 01:07 AM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Beverly
I think if you remove all your rock and kill the rock/mushrooms that way, you will lose your bio-filtration and all heck will break loose with ammonia problems. An alternative to doing all the rock at once is doing some at a time.
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not realy, as I stated I would recure it befor I reintroduced it to the tank. as for the benificial bacteria, it will re seed its self during the curing process, maybe I will have to add a cup of tank water to kick it off but thats it. I also only have 4 fish in the tank so bio load is very light for a 90 gal.
I want to stay away from the "some at a time" method as it will not get rid of everything (algae, and other undesiriables) as you will always get cross contamanation when you put the new rock back in. also it would give me the opertunity to "cook" the rock after the boil to renew it and clean it up. the other option is to get 100lbs of interesting base rock and just swap the rock out and cook the stuff I have now. Maybe I will look at making some rock.
Steve |
