Eating My LR?

[reeferious]

to ease up your anxiety about soaking rocks in club soda just make sure soda is room temperature and that you're not soaking rocks overnite, 5 minute soaking at a time will cause most undesirables to crawl out of rocks with minimal harms to most creepy crawlies inside rocks. replace rocks into tank and repeat soaking process next day or two should enable you to find out what's drilling those holes in your rocks. i've done this procedure a few times to flush out a few mantis shrimps, some 12 to 18 inches long worms and even a few stubborn hairy crabs and yes these are still full of life living in my refugium.

[KeMo]

Im Kinda worried about putting my LR in club soda. I think is going to make a cycle again. Im going to take out a one piece that i know one of those f-ers is in and soda that sun of a . Ill see what comes out and take it from their. Im going to the store on Tuesday. Im going to tell them whats going on. Ive spent alot of money at that store.
If I cant seem to get anywhere im going to buy new LR from some were else and cycle it in a tub, Take this stuff out, let it die and re cycle it too.
Thats all i can think of.
Well I would say Dont Buy LiveRock from bigAl's In Toronto. Badd badd .

[lastlight]

I'll bet the live rock in town all comes from a handful of places...maybe even one. I've gotten nasty things inside rock from LFS I love. It's rock and it's a total crap shoot. That's sorta what's cool about spending so much on hunks of rock.

[KeMo]

I was thinking the same thing. The rock sold in Toronto stores proubly does come from the same supplier. Yes its great to get all the different kinds of life on the rocks when you buy them. But when you spend 300 on rocks and find out that they are slowly turning to dust because of some kinda bug or some thing in them it sucks. I would rather of gotten dead rock and seeded it my self. I cant add corals because of these things. So Im gona get more rock and pitch this stuff in the sun to bake abit and die off then re cycle it in a rubbermaid , with power head and heater.

[reefwars]

i still say mantis, if your rock is hard enough you may not hear the "clicking" i have a g.smithi hes in there pounding all the time and ive never heard him once a quick dip in fresh water or club soda would def bring him out lots of people have used club soda before with no ill effect

you could lay a bait trap by the openings to see if anything comes out and id do it at night cause i dont think any day time critters are your problem cheers

[hillegom]

Originally Posted by KeMo

I was thinking the same thing. The rock sold in Toronto stores proubly does come from the same supplier. Yes its great to get all the different kinds of life on the rocks when you buy them. But when you spend 300 on rocks and find out that they are slowly turning to dust because of some kinda bug or some thing in them it sucks. I would rather of gotten dead rock and seeded it my self. I cant add corals because of these things. So Im gona get more rock and pitch this stuff in the sun to bake abit and die off then re cycle it in a rubbermaid , with power head and heater.

If you are going to bake these rocks in the sun to kill all life, why not try the soda trick, one rock at a time and see if the bugger will come out. You won't kill everything and in the long run it will be cheaper if the offending " bugger" comes out and you have undipped rocks left.

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by hillegom

If you are going to bake these rocks in the sun to kill all life, why not try the soda trick, one rock at a time and see if the bugger will come out. You won't kill everything and in the long run it will be cheaper if the offending " bugger" comes out and you have undipped rocks left.

Agree. Seems like you are willing to take the extra step and possibly recycle your tank with new rocks anyhow.

Instead of chucking your rocks... try what has been suggested by the others.


That is why you asked for advice.... right?