I want to pull all my rock, and rescape. I figure that it will take me a long time to cement and figure out how my new scape will look, instead of dealing with a bunch of die off I was thinking it would be easier to kill the rock and reseed it after the fact. What would be a good way of going about this?
I want to kill my live rock how should I do it?
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if it was me i would try and save it and get a stock tank of some sort and throw a skimmer in there with a light over top. but i have also taken live rock out and cleaned it off so that i could store it until i got another tank. what i did was take it outside and i took my power washer and just blasted everything off of it. really sucked but it was the best way to get off everything that was on the rock. it worked really well.
VacavilleFC3S
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smarter idea would be to sell the live rock and by dry rock which is much cheaper
lordofthereef
One reef to rule them all
I think this is the best option. If you are set on killing it though, just let it dry out completely for a few days/weeks then toss it in some circulating water (doesn't have to be salt). You will get a lot of decaying matter. I would swap the water a few times to get as much of that crap off as you can, then dry it again and do whatever you wanted to do with it. FWIW if it is all high quality rock I think this method would be a huge waste of money.
Sohal Tang Tim
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agreed
agreed
I agree..sell the live rock and buy new dead rock.
No brainer....money is money....
Tim
agreed
I agree..sell the live rock and buy new dead rock.
No brainer....money is money....
Tim
Snafu-2112
In Memoriam
I would boil it to kill everything (I used a large aluminum stock pot I have for cooking seafood and a propane burner, outside, because it stinks), which will also help loosen anything live attached to it. Soak it for a few hours in some RODI with a very strong powerhead, with a little muriatic acid added to it to remove the top layer of the rock, then take it out, rinse it, hit it with a power washer to get everything off of it. I have done this twice with no problems. All it cost me was $5 for muriatic acid. Much cheaper than buying new live OR dead rock.
Rockys_Pride
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so you want to rescape, why is it going to take you more than a few hours to do? Are you taking down a tank and setting a new one up? Maybe I misunderstand, but if you're just going to rearrange in the same tank, you wouldn't need to kill anything, just rearrange it. I've had my LR out of the water for about an hour and nothing died, I just put it back in and everything was back to normal.
Or
I your LR covered in aiptasia, algae, or something else?
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I your LR covered in aiptasia, algae, or something else?
what he said. I can't believe know one has asked this question yet?
my question is what would be the point in selling rock because you think its dead just to buy more dead rock and seeding it?
is this so you can glue rocks together? if so why dont you get a little bit of dry/base rock at a time (if money is an isue) and when you have enough glue,epoxy, aquascape your heart out then cure it in another tub or tank, then pull out the old, in with the new, shouldn't take that long becuse you already know how its going to go, and you can sell old rock as live rock still, instead of base rock, use that money to buy corals for your beautifull new look. all you need to do is be patient..:dance: damn i'm good
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