Cooking Live Rock - Exact Process?
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dumbreefer123 said:How retarded have we become, cooking LR is stupid. Proper maintnance and regular PHead blowing and a cannister setup as a vac will elimanate alot of the issue. PROPER HUSBANDRY!!!! Sounds like some idiot just wanted to coin a phrase and feel wuv'd by the reef community. Peace brotha knucklheads.
JoeW
Some times stuff happens. I for one do my best to practice good husbandry, but IMPHO a bad batch of salt has created issues that despite a number of different methodologies tried, I have been unable to resolve.
BTW, you may wish to review your users agreement for Reef Central..
David
reefkeeper59
In Memoriam
hey dumbreefer
Look at this (below)and tell me that I don't have good husbandry skills. I spend on average two to three hours everyday husbandry practices on my "tanks". I've had , black cyano,green hair algea, mantis shrimp amoung many other things and the dreaded zoo eating nudibranch. If you had any experience at this you would no better than to make the statements that reef keeping is just a matter of husbandry skills and all can be solved with a Phead blowing. Phead blowing spreads hair algea spore witch make new hair algae colonies. A turkey baister is plenty suficiant for blowing rock off. How about throwing some pics on your profile to show us your what you have. That should explain it. The name of this site is REEFCENTRAL. Do you even have a salt tank? How about CO2 injection? Got that? Calcium reator? MH Lights? Chiller?
Looks like you make a profile, just enough info to post (wow, 3 posts), no location, no pics,etc etc., Your teacher wants to know why your not in class, better get a move on.
Look at this (below)and tell me that I don't have good husbandry skills. I spend on average two to three hours everyday husbandry practices on my "tanks". I've had , black cyano,green hair algea, mantis shrimp amoung many other things and the dreaded zoo eating nudibranch. If you had any experience at this you would no better than to make the statements that reef keeping is just a matter of husbandry skills and all can be solved with a Phead blowing. Phead blowing spreads hair algea spore witch make new hair algae colonies. A turkey baister is plenty suficiant for blowing rock off. How about throwing some pics on your profile to show us your what you have. That should explain it. The name of this site is REEFCENTRAL. Do you even have a salt tank? How about CO2 injection? Got that? Calcium reator? MH Lights? Chiller?
Looks like you make a profile, just enough info to post (wow, 3 posts), no location, no pics,etc etc., Your teacher wants to know why your not in class, better get a move on.
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Baalz
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hmm.. i had hair algae for several months.. I did water changes, used turkey baster to blow off rocks and sucked out what i could when doing the water changes..
Now the hair algae is gone. I was just patient and persistant. Never saw a reason to "cook" my rocks.
And this was an existing 2.5 year old tank that most people would have screamed for me to tear out my DSB as well.
patience and persistance is what worked for me.
Now the hair algae is gone. I was just patient and persistant. Never saw a reason to "cook" my rocks.
And this was an existing 2.5 year old tank that most people would have screamed for me to tear out my DSB as well.
patience and persistance is what worked for me.
Broodingwolf
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don't feed the trolls please ^_^ I agree with baalz, this is just someone trolling for a fight, and I'd hate to see this great thread derailed for no good reason.
reefkeeper59
In Memoriam
How about those pics? Dumbreefer123
NwG
New member
Ok... My rocks are looking GREAT in the cooking sump!!! Most of the evil green stuff is gone... maybe 2sq in total (on about 260 lbs of rock) of tne white dead evil hair..... and I think I removed the last 3 remaining skins of bubble.... The stugg vomming out of the rocks is almost compleatly stopped.. just sand now... I go another 2 weeks and see what it looks like then...
I do have one question for the guys who took ALL the rock out of the tank... I fed a little too much lastnight... the tank got all cloudy, was kind of scary!! I at first fiugred something happened to my Kalk drip and CA was falling out of suspension...Nope levels checked out just fine....I think it was a large bac. bloom of some kind... Any of you guys ever have this? It cleared up in a hour or so (mostly skimmed out) I noticed the snails ate whatever was left... Anybody ever see this? I figure with no LR in the tank Much of the N process is takeing place in the water colume.....
I do have one question for the guys who took ALL the rock out of the tank... I fed a little too much lastnight... the tank got all cloudy, was kind of scary!! I at first fiugred something happened to my Kalk drip and CA was falling out of suspension...Nope levels checked out just fine....I think it was a large bac. bloom of some kind... Any of you guys ever have this? It cleared up in a hour or so (mostly skimmed out) I noticed the snails ate whatever was left... Anybody ever see this? I figure with no LR in the tank Much of the N process is takeing place in the water colume.....
First, THANK YOU RC for removing a few of the posts from this thread.
I will prepare my rock cooking pots this weekend and begin to fill them w/ water. After I have enough water prepared, I will begin cooking my rocks this upcoming week. I was planning on putting a MJ1200 and Hagen 802 along w/ my ER 5-2 and a heater.
Planning on a two month process, but am prepared to take as long as needed.
David
I will prepare my rock cooking pots this weekend and begin to fill them w/ water. After I have enough water prepared, I will begin cooking my rocks this upcoming week. I was planning on putting a MJ1200 and Hagen 802 along w/ my ER 5-2 and a heater.
Planning on a two month process, but am prepared to take as long as needed.
David
arconom
Premium Member
Most people look for a temporary solution. I am looking for a permanent solution.
I did by all the snails you mentioned but snails die and the underlying problem is still there. There is no quick fix in this hobby.
If nutrients are locked up in your rock they will always be. Causing leaching of phosphates and other wonderful things. Buying snails is masking a problem. Buying miracal chemicals to take care of algae is not a solution. It's a bandaid.
Most of the people that are "Cooking rock" have tried all the avenues of snake oils. There ready for the solution. They are tired of spending more and more money on Equipment and chemicals that act as a temporary fix.
chevell
You would find out more info if you were to start reading a thread from the beginning. Also more research before judging a method.
I did by all the snails you mentioned but snails die and the underlying problem is still there. There is no quick fix in this hobby.
If nutrients are locked up in your rock they will always be. Causing leaching of phosphates and other wonderful things. Buying snails is masking a problem. Buying miracal chemicals to take care of algae is not a solution. It's a bandaid.
Most of the people that are "Cooking rock" have tried all the avenues of snake oils. There ready for the solution. They are tired of spending more and more money on Equipment and chemicals that act as a temporary fix.
chevell
You would find out more info if you were to start reading a thread from the beginning. Also more research before judging a method.
NwG
New member
What do you guys think about uppin the temp on the Cooking tank?
Say up it to 81-82*F... maybe this would help speed things up a little?
Not to try to shorten the process, but to get more "bang for your buck" out of the time the rock spends in cooking.....
And to the people who are not sure about this... In the 6-8 weeks I have been cooking my rock I have pulled out 45g of dark nasty skimmate (I use a skimmer while cooking, why not?) and have filled 4 5g buckets with sludge i sucked off the bottom of the tank....
Say up it to 81-82*F... maybe this would help speed things up a little?
Not to try to shorten the process, but to get more "bang for your buck" out of the time the rock spends in cooking.....
And to the people who are not sure about this... In the 6-8 weeks I have been cooking my rock I have pulled out 45g of dark nasty skimmate (I use a skimmer while cooking, why not?) and have filled 4 5g buckets with sludge i sucked off the bottom of the tank....
I have cooked my LR a few times over the coarse of my tanks history. I believe the problem lies in the fact that the biological filtration limits of LR can not keep up with the amount of load most of us put on our systems. The cooking process gives the rock the ability to catch up with out more of a load being put upon it. Pretty simple stuff really.
I recently re aquascaped my tank and had a few peices of LR that were in the 10 year old zone, but they had some very nice shape to them. For these I used the patended method of a big boiling pot of water for 4 or 5 hours. then put them back in the tank with the balance of the rock. It only took about 2 months for those rocks to turn completely purple once again.
MIke
I recently re aquascaped my tank and had a few peices of LR that were in the 10 year old zone, but they had some very nice shape to them. For these I used the patended method of a big boiling pot of water for 4 or 5 hours. then put them back in the tank with the balance of the rock. It only took about 2 months for those rocks to turn completely purple once again.
MIke
