MAKING DRY ROCK LIVE

[Corbin]

well you cant really cook dry rock, if your meaning, dry rock as, it was never live rock from a reef but man made instead.

"But before I do I just want to say that Bomber instructed me how to do it several months ago and it works great. So it is his process that I am trying to make popular and cause fellow hobbyists a lot less heartache in the long term.
The purpose of "cooking" your rocks is to have tha bacteria consume all (or as much) organic material and PO4 stored on, and in, the rock as possible.

The first step to this is commitment.
You have to be willing to remove your rock from the tank.
It doesn't have to be all at once, but I feel if you are going to do this do it all. In stages if that is easier but make sure that all of it gets done.

The new environment you are creating for your rock is to take it from an algal driven to a bacterial driven system.
In order to this, the rock needs to be in total darkness to retard and eventually kill the algae's on the rock and to give the bacteria time to do the job."

- http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...hreadid=437342

If you just want to seed the rock, you dont really need the rock since the bacteria doesnt really need it. but to get coraline etc growing then yeah.