Curing Pukani

[CStrickland]

If your just trying to clear nitrates, larger changes are more efficient. You can do like 80% every other day. Just 25% each week won't do much at all, and with smaller changes you're always removing some of the clean water you added last time. So it's not like you're doing 100% in 4 weeks, more like 68%. That's a reduction from 10ppm to 4.5 over a whole month assuming no more nitrates are being added.

 

[SeattleReefer]

My experience with three different pieces of pukani has been the same. I acid bath cured each piece to remove organics which resulted in a nice pure white piece of rock that went in the tank.

In a few weeks the rock was absolutely covered in hair algae, it was really ugly!

But a few weeks afterwards the CC had done their job and the hair algae receeds back being barely visible.

I believe that the rock has a certain amount of readily available phosphates that promote the hair algae growth but that phosphate supply is somewhat easily depleted in the presence of gfo.

 

[Bl4ckDr4g0n]

So after 7.5 weeks curing in the basement, I decided to go ahead and get the DT up and running. I just could not wait any longer. It's been just over a week and some GHA has started to bloom but you have to look pretty hard to see it. The Red Sea Reef Mature Kit is awesome. NH3:0 NO2:0 NO3:10 on day 7. The NOPOX seems to be working well as NO3 was well over 20 just a few days earlier. I think the rock turned out looking great I cant wait to see some life in this tank.

 

[crabbydan]

Let's see a picture please

 

[Bl4ckDr4g0n]

Maybe this image will work better?

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