Pests migrating from refugium

[Doug]

Originally Posted by Jaws

I have a question though. When you're curing dry rock, most people suggest seeding it with live rock. When you seed your dry rock with live rock, don't you run the risk of transferring whatever unknown pests could be deeply embedded into the live rock?

Yup, which is why I wont add any live to mine this time. At least try to keep the pest crap out I guess...

[Jaws]

My main interest is to introduce a thriving pod population, which I can probably do through adding chaeto to the refugium, and I plan on having a dark tank specifically for sponges. I'm just not entirely sure how you'd introduce those without introducing anything else.

Sorry if i'm hijacking. It should be relative to Doug's questions though too.

[Doug]

Originally Posted by Jaws

My main interest is to introduce a thriving pod population, which I can probably do through adding chaeto to the refugium, and I plan on having a dark tank specifically for sponges. I'm just not entirely sure how you'd introduce those without introducing anything else.

Sorry if i'm hijacking. It should be relative to Doug's questions though too.

Not at all. Good discussion.

Im worried about my mandarin in the new tank for awhile also, plus I wanted to get her a mate. Seeing as how I can use my old rock anyways, guess they will stay there for a bit.

[Jaws]

Originally Posted by Doug

Im worried about my mandarin in the new tank for awhile also, plus I wanted to get her a mate. Seeing as how I can use my old rock anyways, guess they will stay there for a bit.

Ya the longer you can wait the better with any mandarin. I wouldn't add a mandarin until I could see pods crawling all over the glass. They eat all day long and will kill a pod population pretty quickly if it's not large enough to self sustain.