Help me find a Thread on - Seeding base rock
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Don't know about a thread but I stuck marco rock in a tub with some really nice cured indo rock recently (3 big pieces of marco with a couple big pieces of live rocks) for about a month under low intensity fluorescent light. It has been in my DT now for 5 weeks and I am seeing lots of coralline starting. Had a heater and a maxijet in the tub and threw in food like there was a couple fish. I have a rebuild thread that describes it here http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2238444
NeilFox
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rsaha is pretty right on with this advice. See if you can get a nice piece of cured live rock to put in your dt. A few smallish pieches scattered around even better. There isn't much more to it than that. I've seen those "Tanked" guys on tv pour some kind of liquid in to cycle a tank. Don't know how effective, but like rsaha has pointed out LR has alot af good stuff on it...
knight2255
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I bought some live rock rubble($10) to start cycle...couple weeks later added $10 of pods....couple weeks later added hermits covered in coralline($7)
And now how does it look??
I bet pretty good.
It does not take much... I mean you can not put it in today and expect to take it out and use it tomorrow.
No matter what I end up doing in the future.. I will prob just keep my rock active and happy... that way I can either get rid of it or use it in a new tank...
That is if I decide to stop what I am doing now...
Just find a friend or even go to a LFS and get a piece or two... Look for something that looks 'interesting'.
My very first piece of LR was covered in GREEN and pods... and a few aptasia:
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I bet pretty good.
It does not take much... I mean you can not put it in today and expect to take it out and use it tomorrow.
No matter what I end up doing in the future.. I will prob just keep my rock active and happy... that way I can either get rid of it or use it in a new tank...
That is if I decide to stop what I am doing now...
Just find a friend or even go to a LFS and get a piece or two... Look for something that looks 'interesting'.
My very first piece of LR was covered in GREEN and pods... and a few aptasia:
<iframe width="1280" height="720" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WmQOKIw4PKc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/o15QKsa5TEKk264MiUfH-9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-FOhLpTVtDSc/T-bA3XlCtWI/AAAAAAAA0pE/lIwFRzGHqYw/s800/2012-06-23_21-18-05_989.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/100665886462363731490/FishTank2012?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite">FishTank 2012</a></td></tr></table>
