Opcn
Big fish
traditional curing goes something like this, toss the rock in the tank with little or no light and no inverts or fish and let it go for two weeks, maybe add a skimmer after two weeks then lights after four and critters after six. Now, I'm relatively sure I will never undersand the skimmer thing, unless its to avoid damaging the skimmer itself with all the crud in the water, but what I want to examine is the no light policy.
Personally I think that it would be a good idea to light it up 24/7 durring the curing process, while curing the two biggest problems are DOC's and nitrogen containing Ions. both of which are consumed by algeas such as bubble algea and black hair alge as well as more desirable forms like macroalgeas and coralines. Now if you ran the lights on your newly curing Live rock for 24 hours a day then the various forms of algea might just be able to keep up with the Nitrogen containing Ions pouring off of the rotting dead stuff, and if that were to happen then the living components like brittle stars and bristle worms wouldnt be under such a strain, wich could lead to fewer deaths and a shorter curing period. Also if we could keep down the nitrogen containing ions then couldnt we have a cleanup crew that could maybe eat some of the dead matter off of the live rock before it decayed. Now, Nitrate is the least offensive of the threenitroen containing compounds, especially in marine pH's so naturaly we wuld strive for converters such as bioballs, ceramic rings, biomedia, biowheels and biospira, we would still need to do water changes, buit with a normal cycle thats imporant too, however we wouldnt be taking out as much nitrogen we would be converting it to algea in our tanks, wich we then convewrt into larger cleanup crew critters, if we did this we would need a very overstocked cleanup crew, perhaps 3 snails or hermits per lb of live rock. Give the idea some thought please, I eagerly await your replies
Personally I think that it would be a good idea to light it up 24/7 durring the curing process, while curing the two biggest problems are DOC's and nitrogen containing Ions. both of which are consumed by algeas such as bubble algea and black hair alge as well as more desirable forms like macroalgeas and coralines. Now if you ran the lights on your newly curing Live rock for 24 hours a day then the various forms of algea might just be able to keep up with the Nitrogen containing Ions pouring off of the rotting dead stuff, and if that were to happen then the living components like brittle stars and bristle worms wouldnt be under such a strain, wich could lead to fewer deaths and a shorter curing period. Also if we could keep down the nitrogen containing ions then couldnt we have a cleanup crew that could maybe eat some of the dead matter off of the live rock before it decayed. Now, Nitrate is the least offensive of the threenitroen containing compounds, especially in marine pH's so naturaly we wuld strive for converters such as bioballs, ceramic rings, biomedia, biowheels and biospira, we would still need to do water changes, buit with a normal cycle thats imporant too, however we wouldnt be taking out as much nitrogen we would be converting it to algea in our tanks, wich we then convewrt into larger cleanup crew critters, if we did this we would need a very overstocked cleanup crew, perhaps 3 snails or hermits per lb of live rock. Give the idea some thought please, I eagerly await your replies
or their idiots if they put uncured LR in their display tank.
