Cooking and Curing Rock....

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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.

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.

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.....