Curing Lr

[jeasko]

Kj thanks for confirming my thoughts, just out if interest do you know why no water changes needed? as usual process would be water changes to remove unwanted substances from our tanks yet when we cure/cook rock why don't we do water changes to aid the process? Just a curious question

 

[ALW]

Kj thanks for confirming my thoughts, just out if interest do you know why no water changes needed? as usual process would be water changes to remove unwanted substances from our tanks yet when we cure/cook rock why don't we do water changes to aid the process? Just a curious question

Because a water change will dilute the ammonia in the water and slow the curing process.

 

[jeasko]

But where then does the ammonia go when we do no water changes? What consumes it and the nitrite come to think of it?

 

[jeasko]

Ok so tested the water today and the water parameters are ammonia 0 nitrite 0.01 ( if any can't make out if there is coloration in the test solution ) nitrate around 50, apart from the nitrate I don't see any reason to be concerned with adding this rock, however will monitor over the next week and see if the prams stay where they are if they do i guess it's safe to add?

Something has obviously spiked as I had 0.25 of ammonia last week and there is now a diatom bloom going on and I'm sure nitrite spiked at same time, the diatoms alone indicate something has been going on, I started this process from memory on the 16th jan so time wise it seems right?

 

[kj23502]

you are looking at the nitrifying process. Here, first paragraph sums it up.

http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrification

The only reason to do water changes is if you had live rock with a lot of live on it that traveled a great distance. In this case some of the life would die creating the cycle. One would perform water changes to keep the ammonia from getting high enough to keep killing some life they want to try to preserve. In your case, the rock is dead so you don't have anything to save.