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					Originally Posted by asylumdown  why is there so much die-off? Wasn't this rock live from a tank? Did it spend too much time out of water? | 
	
 It was from a tank but it sat outside for a few hours before I got it so there is going to be a lot of die off.
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					Originally Posted by Wheelman76  That's what I was thinking , even just adding  water from your tank to the rock can introduce spores of all kinds of  different things. | 
	
 My tank is pretty clean.....  my old water going in with the rock will only help keep it alive.  If I put the cured live rock back into my tank then thats a possibly.  Its in the dark now so theoretically algae can't grow.   Slowly I should be able to kill most of it / wash away most of it with water changes. 
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					Originally Posted by Myka  That white stuff is mold.  There is still a lot of  organics rotting inside that rock.  It will take awhile for all the  organics to leech out. | 
	
 I thought it might be mold unless there was some other weird chemical relationship that was happening...  I am not a chemist.....   mold it is.....  
I am thinking it will be a few weeks until its cured.....