frozen LR

bignose · #1 11-21-2008, 11:21 PM

I got free LR from someone today but it was frozen. How do I clean and reseed this rock so it can be used again?

Trigger Man · #2 11-21-2008, 11:26 PM

You will need to buy some cured live rock or borrow some from a friend for a bit. The organisms will populate the rock you currently bought. With the rock you just bought try to clean off all the dead matter, because this will negativly affect your water parameters.

bignose · #3 11-21-2008, 11:29 PM

I have a spare tank that I was thinking of putting the rock in. when I put the rock in how hot should I have the heat? I also have a 10G tank with 13 pnds of rock, I could take a couple of pnds out of there to put in the 55G.

Trigger Man · #4 11-21-2008, 11:35 PM

Good idea, take the frozen rock and put it into the spare tank. You could run the heat of the tank in the 70's. There will probably be some dieoff due to the fact that the rock as frozen, so by using the spare tank it will not affect your current tanks water parameters. Give it a bit then use some seed rock (rock that currently has organisms growing on it -sounds like you have some in a 10 g tank-). The seed rock will allow for organisms to populate over to the other rocks.