Curing Live rock?

[Phischy]

First question, about how many lbs of live rock per gallon of capacity?

I've used live rock before but it was already cured. This time around I've got a hookup. He works for one of the premium LFS in town and is also one of their main purchasers. Every other Friday he drives to LAX to buy the stuff that's coming in right off the plane (well, a warehouse. be kinda funny to see people selling fish out of the plane like fake rolex's out of the back of a hooptie: "Hey mahn, I gots your fish right here....real fresh). Regardless, he'll get me as many lbs as I need with hopefully as many hitchhikers as possible for what the store pays.

I'll just have to tell him what kinda, Fiji or whatever and how much.

Has anyone cured live rock before? I'm going to do that along with enough live sand. I hear it stinks to high heaven as everything dies off. Not looking forward to that and this is also how I"m goign to cycle my tank. Any tips?
thanks

 

[Dollarz81]

1. Most say a minumum of 1lb live rock per gallon. I think that is a good number because i does not give a tank a cluttered look with to much rock. I am getting 25lbs for a 20gal tank.

2. You can cure the rock in your tank if its a newly set up yank with no inhabitants. TIP: to frequent 20% water changes, about 2 times a week until rock is fully cure

 

[Hillbilly]

Strong flow, frequent water changes, and strong skimming has always worked for me. It doesn't smell that bad if you remove dead stuff like sponges before you start curing it.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm just a week into my cycle in a 7 gal minibow, and I went with some uncured LR from Walt Island Fiji, and it was covered with corraline, and god knows what else. Unlike most people who actually read the threads, I didn't bother scrubbing off the dead stuff, or pulling out the dead tubes, etc. The benefit was my cycle is almost done in 7 days.

I agree on the skimmer, it really helps to remove all the dissolved solids, and helps on the smell. I'd watch your photo periods. I'm running a CSL Smartlight PC and i'm dealing with a good amount of brown and green hair algea, plus the infamous diatom bloom. My light period was 10-14 hours a day, b/c I constantly stare at the rock, looking for any and all new corraline development, and to see what hitchiked into my little world of the sea.

I've cut my photo period down to 6-8 hours, still working on getting the temp closer to 80 instead of 82-84, so until the cycle is complete, and my temp problem is fixed, my wife gets more of my attention than my little "nano"

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