Cooking LR (?)
- Thread starter bruffin
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TekCat
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bruffin, you can turn off your stove now 
Cooking is just a term that describes following process:
First of all, it is designed for LR, though I don't see why this wont work for dead rocks as well.
The idea is to create bacterial environment for rocks instead of algal. Rocks placed in a total darkness for about 8 weeks (in salt water of course). Every week 100% of water changed, and rocks get dunked and swished in number of fresh saltwater buckets to remove detrius and other junk.
What this does is: algea dies off, pores get open, and bacteria as a predominant occupant of rocks will remove phosphates (there is a scientific termin of this process, but I forgot the name).
At the end of the cooking process you'll get clean rock however it is still a LR, it has bacteria thriving; pods and sponges are going to survive too. The only life lost is a photosynthetic kind - algea.
hth.
Cooking is just a term that describes following process:First of all, it is designed for LR, though I don't see why this wont work for dead rocks as well.
The idea is to create bacterial environment for rocks instead of algal. Rocks placed in a total darkness for about 8 weeks (in salt water of course). Every week 100% of water changed, and rocks get dunked and swished in number of fresh saltwater buckets to remove detrius and other junk.
What this does is: algea dies off, pores get open, and bacteria as a predominant occupant of rocks will remove phosphates (there is a scientific termin of this process, but I forgot the name).
At the end of the cooking process you'll get clean rock however it is still a LR, it has bacteria thriving; pods and sponges are going to survive too. The only life lost is a photosynthetic kind - algea.
hth.
