Cooking and Curing Rock....

[Wheelman76]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

PS, you're going through all sorts of trouble sterilizing and preparing a bunch of other rock, why not do the same with this stuff? Aren't you just risking introducing pest algae to your pristinely cleaned new rock when you put them in a tank with this stuff?

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.

[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.