How bad is 8 days in a box for live rock?

MikeD

MikeD

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Jeff's exotic fish messed up an order (twice actually - no more orders from them!) where they shipped ground instead of overnight. How bad is 8 days in the box??? They were supposed to recall that messup but now it's supposedly coming in tomorrow fedex ground. Would the cycle be bad? Should I expect dead nasty rock?

Mike
 
I would place it in a large tub with fresh SW and a few powerheads for movement and a heater to get the temp stable and then do about a 25% WC every other day for about a month or so until all the death on the rock has decayed and the life has started to return.
 
Maybe I should just refuse delivery!!! I think that is what I'm going to do! Too much work to be doing at school!
 
I would refuse delivery. It's not right to pay for bad goods and I will assure you your rock will be nothing more than ripe. . . .think of digging up a grave after a week. Your cycle will be terrible and you paid for "live rock".
 
I agree--refuse delivery. There are folks selling rock out of their tanks all the time. I thought I'd save some $$$ by buying 30lbs of LR from DrsFosterSmith for $100 but wound up spending tons of $$$ on salt, for water changes. All that time's gotta be worth something too.
 
If it was uncured rock you have not lost anything, it will be no much of a difference 8 days.
If it was supposed to be cured I would request a credit for the difference between cured and uncured
 
even if it was uncured, that doesn't mean it was out of water for 8 days in a box in an airplane. Uncured means it came straight from the ocean, went to usually Los Angeles and then to your house.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8633463#post8633463 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NewSchool04
even if it was uncured, that doesn't mean it was out of water for 8 days in a box in an airplane. Uncured means it came straight from the ocean, went to usually Los Angeles and then to your house.
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Rock is rarely sent right out of the ocean, it is harvested, piled up for several days until some of the large algae and sponges are removed, then boxed and shipped, at least one week there also It is my understanding that rock is shipped from origin wet but never shipped with water and most uncured is kept in the box as the orders come in, if you are lucky you get them three to four weeks after it left the ocean. The amount of rotting would be no different for one more week.
 
It's piled up and sprayed down with salt water to remove the sponges and bad critters, boxed up and then air shipped to the U.S. It doesn't just sit there on the beach, if they are inbetween air flights, it's hosed down. Once it gets to the U.S. depending on the vendor it goes into curing vats or re-boxed to guy's like MikeD. Now that is all clear and if anything different goes on between Fiji and Los Angeles, MikeD knows nothing.
What MikeD knows is his rock from L.A. to Chicago has taken more than a week. I would be ****ed.
 
Even cured rock would have die off and have to be treated carefully.
That nasty worm I had came out of a piece of rock from a box that was almost void of moisture, the cardboard was dry and yellowed, it had been sitting for a while. It's what's deep inside that counts, hopefully not a nasty worm but the things that will aid your tank.
adding a significant amount of lr to a tank is going to cause swing/cycle events.
 
Yeah I did go to bed!! 4 hours of sleep for me a night! Whoo hoo! I ordered cured it was the 50lbs for $99 deal. A bit better than PA (but never had a prob with them .. hmmm). I need to call them this morning now.. sigh. At least I got my new sandbed in! Thanks for all the input and discussion. It is interesting to know all of this! The rock is going into my classroom tank so I don't really have the space/time/money, to bring the rock back from the dead in the room by water changes every day etc.

Mike
 
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