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Curing dry rocks
- Thread starter ricwilli
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That's the only water you should use.
Making up new saltwater just to cure rocks is toooo expensive. Use your old tank water and you'll be fine.
Making up new saltwater just to cure rocks is toooo expensive. Use your old tank water and you'll be fine.
Just a powerhead and a heater.
when you say dry rocks do you mean like marco rocks?
Phyl do you mean Marco rocks smell when you cure them? I was under the impression that there was no curing of dry rocks. do you wash them good and put then in tank to age and be seeded? is this what you mean by curing? I know what curing live rock means just want to clear this up cause I'm thinking of Marco for seahorse tank.
I'm in the process of curing about 150lbs of live rock now. I didn't really have that much smell at all. If first you remove most of the dead or decaying life on the rock you can greatly reduce the smell and speed up the curing process. I have no experience with curing dry rock so I can't comment on if it smells or not.
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The first week curing Marco rocks is the worst.... you'll think you have a large dead animal in the room. The water will turn black and stink is an understatement. Once you do the first water change, it will get better. I'm on week 2 of my Marco rock curing process. So far so good. I have about 200 lbs in a 55 gallon barrel with 7 powerheads and a heater. About 30% water comes from my old tank water and the rest is freshly made salt water. From my discussions with Marc, the entire curing process should take about 4 weeks.
Add me to the list who tried to cure marco rocks in the tank on initial setup. It smelled so badly that I had to take it out and move to the garage. Subsequent purchases I used water from my pwc to cure it. Matter of fact I have about 25 pounds of rubble from marco rock curing now. Should be done in another week.
Fresh picked rock probably has less completely dead organic matter in it (most of the organics are pretty tolerant to some air exposure). I cured rock that came into an LFS after it arrived from the distributor (so it wasn't in the vendor's system at all). It didn't smell nearly as much as the dry rock from Marco.
You probably won't have the excess dried organics that you have on Marco Rock (unless there was a good population of sponge in the 120). You might have some smell, but I personally haven't encountered anything as bad smelling as curing Marco Rock (good thing the looks are worth the smell)!