Curing live rock?

[hexedagain]

I have about 100-125 pounds of live rock that I need to cure.
Some of it is still wet, and never been out of water, while the rest is dry, and been out of water for a little while. I know the dry rock is no longer "live", but I also know that it can be with a little seeding, right?
I am just looking for the best way to cure this rock, so I can use some, and sell off what I don't need.
Do I need lighting for it, should I over skim it, how often should I do water changes, how much water should I change when I do, etc...?
Thanks for any help.

 

[lifesworksataol]

well if you want to save the life on it - then treat it like a regular tank - but if not then do it in a garbage can in the garage and just use a power head for 3 or 4 weeks - doing weekly water changes should work

 

[seth16]

OK, you should have light over it so that you have coraline algae growth and all, you need nitrates and light to grow algae... You should have medium flow in there, make sure that teh water is aerated well, and yes, if you ahve a skimmer, i would use it. Even thought you are just curing the rock, you want to take out as much bad stuff as you can. and IDK about the water changes, i mean, i ahvent cured a large amount of rock , and or konws how much to change, but me thinks you should, but idk how much. When you are done curing this, if you have extra...i want some of it...lol, i need like 20 pounds....but i will take what i can get. Thanks man, just let em knwo how it goes.

Seth

 

[hexedagain]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9443918#post9443918 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by lifesworksataol
well if you want to save the life on it - then treat it like a regular tank - but if not then do it in a garbage can in the garage and just use a power head for 3 or 4 weeks - doing weekly water changes should work

How much of the water should I change? Also, I need to run a skimmer on it too, right?
Thanks.

 

[DJChesnutRabbit]

Do 10% WC like you normally would in a tank. You don't need a skimmer just some flow to keep the water moving.

 

[cham]

A vast majority of rock went into my tank as dead dry rock. I was originally in it for a fish only system and didn't care how live the rock was. Here are some before and after pics


Almost all base rock BEFORE

About 8 months later after (two RBTA's in harmony?)

My tank has about as much red coraline as purple for whatever reason.

With flash

 

[seth16]

Wow, that is nice rock, congrats....

 

[cham]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9445805#post9445805 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by seth16
Wow, that is nice rock, congrats....

Thanks seth.

Good luck with your 75!

 

[chrisstie]

If it helps in my 55g I had about 65 lbs of rock to cure that came "dry shipped" in a box but probably wasn't out of the water more than a few days..

Put it in the tank.. didn't bother with water changes.. had normal lighting cycle to save the coralline- with the cycle going on though I couldn't keep a cleanup crew so I had some rockstar algae going on at the end but it wasn't anything some turbo snails couldn't handle