live rock question

[71raw]

hi, got a quick question. my brother has a bunch of live rock in his sw tank and i want to crush it and use it to put in the 2 chambers for a 12gnano cube (soon to have) the thing is it has lots of junk on it like long hair alage and sum weird purple milldew. well what im trying to say is should i scruub it off and clean it with fresh water befor putting it in the chambers or should i just leave it as it is and throw it in the chamber.


thanks againg for any help

 

[EDGRAY]

I think it wil be ok, just putting it in your chambers since there is no light in chambers the hair algea will disapeard and the purple thing if is CORALINE Algea then is fine nothing to worry about!

 

[71raw]

is the CORALINE Algea a good thing or bad thing?

 

[EDGRAY]

is the CORALINE Algea a good thing or bad thing?

Is a good thing.... but well look this link... really helpful on ID..

http://www.xtalworld.com/Aquarium/hitchfaq.htm

 

[71raw]

thankx ed.. nice link helps out alot.

 

[Tony]

That was a wicked link. Thanks. i thought i had a bay anemone. truns out its one of those Aipstasia...the first one on the list.

 

[reefman23]

Personally, I would scrub it well in some old tank water or new saltwater then break it up and add it to the chamber...

Jesse

 

[KChan]

I would scrub it with your brothers existing tank water then crush it.

 

[Moorish_Idol]

exactly, that'll be better. There's a product from KENT MARINE that comes with a "scrub" and is used to prepair and clean the LR for new tanks, or in your case, chambers. :mrgreen: Good luck

 

[71raw]

awesome thanks everything running fine..... will post pictures soon,,,