LR in the dark

[scumchug]

The coralline will turn white, but shouldn't take long to come back. Cooking it for only a month is useless.

I have at least 100 pounds cooking at any time. I cook it for as long as it takes to not test any nitrates or phosphates. I change the water once a week at the minimum. run a skimmer, heat the water, and have a couple power heads going. Every week when I change the water, I take the rock out, scrub it with a brush, and rinse it in clean water.

The rock I have cooking right now is the worst I've ever done. Its been cooking since October 13th, and still testing Phospates at 0.25. It should be done in another 3 weeks to a month.

[Whatigot]

Originally Posted by scumchug

The coralline will turn white, but shouldn't take long to come back. Cooking it for only a month is useless.

I have at least 100 pounds cooking at any time. I cook it for as long as it takes to not test any nitrates or phosphates. I change the water once a week at the minimum. run a skimmer, heat the water, and have a couple power heads going. Every week when I change the water, I take the rock out, scrub it with a brush, and rinse it in clean water.

The rock I have cooking right now is the worst I've ever done. Its been cooking since October 13th, and still testing Phospates at 0.25. It should be done in another 3 weeks to a month.

Noone here said that they were cooking for only one month...lol.
where did that come from>>?



lol.

[scumchug]

You mentioned that you had a lid on it for a month. I just wanted to throw that out there so someone didn't get the wrong idea and think they could cook it for a month, and all would be fine.

I had one person contact me thinking that cooking live rock was done in the oven.. The internet is a great resource for information, but sometimes what you type, and what someone else reads are two completely different things.

[Canuckgod420]

I cured my rock for 3 weeks......worked out great, I have had the same rock in my tank for 3 years now, no major algae bloom, no aiptasia, and a whole bunch of encrusting corals that came out of no where.
I've also cured rock under MH light and it finished in just a couple of weeks.

[Whatigot]

lol...
obviously, the proof is in the pudding so to speak.
I was replying to the question of coraline dying that was initially posed in this thread, not the unasked question of the proper way to cook.
Lots of great threads on this forum and others about that.

[Myka]

Hmmm...I just realised today that my GSP made it through 7 weeks of darkness. I wonder why coralline can't??