Curing live rock

[Wilkerson.reed]

I have been curing Fiji live rock for about 2 months now... I have it in a 5 gallon bucket with a heater and a powerhead. I just tested the water in the bucket and the nitrite is at 0 nitrate is at about 5 maybe and ammonia I couldn't tell exactly but it was either 0 or between 0 and 0.1 ppm. The levels above 0 could be from the water in the bucket before I did a 100 % water change though... Because I didn't dry the heater, powerhead or rocks before I put clean water back in the bucket so the levels could have been from last time... Anyways, my question is, is it time to move the rock from the bucket to my tank? Do you just move it or do you have to dry it before you put it in your display tank?



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[CarrieB]

Don't dry it or you will have to cycle it all over again.


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[Wilkerson.reed]

Don't dry it or you will have to cycle it all over again.


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Okay thanks! So is it time to add it to the tank or should I wait longer? Or do you think the levels were just from me not drying the heater and getting the dirty water off of those?

 

[CarrieB]

What was the rock like when you started and what have you done to cycle it? Was it dry clean rock, dry rock with old organic matter on it or active live rock from a tank or shipped from a supplier?

Did you do any testing of the ammonia and nitrite levels over the two months?


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[Wilkerson.reed]

What was the rock like when you started and what have you done to cycle it? Was it dry clean rock, dry rock with old organic matter on it or active live rock from a tank or shipped from a supplier?

Did you do any testing of the ammonia and nitrite levels over the two months?


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It was dry Fiji rock from bulk reef supply and all I did to cycle it was put it in saltwater with the same parameters as my tank and put a powerhead and heater in the bucket. I have been testing the water over the past couple months and it the ammonia, nitrate and nitrite went extremely high and now they have come back down. Nitrate is at about 5 and ammonia was hard to tell but it wasn't over 0.1 ppm. It looked like 0 but it was was an API test kit so it wasn't an exact reading so it was difficult to tell exactly. Nitrite is at 0.

 

[CarrieB]

I have read that the API ammonia test kit can give a false ammonia reading. Since the nitrite went up and is now zero I would say your rock is ready for the tank.


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[Wilkerson.reed]

I have read that the API ammonia test kit can give a false ammonia reading. Since the nitrite went up and is now zero I would say your rock is ready for the tank.


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Okay. Thanks for the reply!