Keeping LR

[Pufferpunk]

I just bought 80lbs of LR from Doubledown & am keeping it in a 50g, till my 90 tank is ready. What should I do to keep it the best?

Food, light, current, water changes?

I put the 15lb bag of aragonite sand on the bottom, so the LR can seed it. I'll probably leave it in that tanks for th dusky jawfish that'll eventually go in there. I have an AC 500 filled w filter floss, to clear up the cloudy water & am blowing the silt off the rock daily with a turkey baster. I also have an AC 4000, for current. I have extra strip lights but the bulbs are old.

 

[Sullyman]

Is it cured rock?
How long til you get into the new tank?

 

[Pufferpunk]

Yes, it is cured, has creatures in it & coraline growing on it. I found out yesterday, it may be another month, before I get the tank for upgrade (I thought it would be sooner). I noticed this morning, that the tank is in the sunlight.

 

[Sullyman]

I would just keep this up.....
I have an AC 500 filled w filter floss, to clear up the cloudy water & am blowing the silt off the rock daily with a turkey baster. I also have an AC 4000, for current.
Not worry about the light so much, or feeding.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Don't I want to keep the pods & coraline alive on there? I went really far (100 mi round trip) for such nice rock. I was thinking of just adding DT's to the tank a few times/week & I found someone w/a 36" PC to put over the tank. (It wasn't in the sunlight for very long--just the morning.)

 

[aaronpentz]

Maybe someone could hold the rock for you. In there sump or fuge to keep it seperate from theirs. I would but dont have that much room.

Just a thought

 

[Teremei]

I'd just put a couple maxijets on each end for flow. Got any PCs? Like 100watt? Because it's a larger tank you'd need a bit more than a refugium light.

And I'd just feed a tiny bit of rod food each night. Turn the flow off for a little to let it settle into the rocks. You want to keep those amphipods and other critters alive too right?

 

[Pufferpunk]

Yeah, I started adding DT's to the rock. I'm gonna borrow a 36" PC for it too, so it shoudl be set. Just concerned about the ones on the bottom getting enough light.

 

[Sullyman]

The coraline will come back, and as for the life in the rock surviving, you saw the worm I took out of my tank. Looking forward to seeing your new tank.

 

[Pufferpunk]

There better not be any of those worms in my rock!

 

[marilynrn711]

Do you have a skimmer on the tank?

 

[Pufferpunk]

I don't have a skimmer on there right now. I'd like to but have both of my skimmers on other tanks. If I could get rid of the hair algae in my nano, I'd move everything from there, into the LR holding tank. Then I could use the PC lights that are on there too. Don't want to infect the new rock w/algae. Looks like it's going away though, since I put 2 handfulls of cheato & a bunch of snails in the nano.

 

[marilynrn711]

If you dont have a skimmer on it I would do a lot of water changes.

 

[aaronpentz]

Do you want a skimmer. I have a spare id let you use.

 

[aaronpentz]

you need a pump though

 

[Pufferpunk]

Thanks! I'm hoping to move the stuff out of my nano soon & then I can use that skimmer. Very nice of you to offer though!

 

[gkq325286]

When I moved last July all my rock from a 220 was tossed into a couple 75's and a 55 just till the 220 was up again, month or two tops....I just set the 220 up last weekend. I did very little for the rock over the past year. A lot of my corals where on top of the rock pile so it did have lights and a skimmer, very little food, very few water changes. I was too busy trying to complete the fishroom and the rest of the basement along with a LONG honey do list. The rock is insain looking now. Yeah I lost some coral line, but the tube worns are sizeable, and a ton of them, several sponges are going strong, lots and lots of life. I would not worry about the rock so much. The only worry I'd give it is are you really going to get the tank in a month, two months, 6 hopefully not a year like me.

 

[jcm1229]

I have my extra rock and rubble in a container with heater and powerhead. I give it some exrta light other than daylight once in a while. Since I have pods and some snails in there, I do feed the container a couple of times a week. I'm going to be setting up a new tank soon and all this rock will probable be going in there. I recently put a couple of plastic bowls with Southdown so that I will have some sand that is seeded or at least "bacteria-fied" when I add it to the rest of the new southdown.

I basically run this small container like if it was a tank itself!

You should be fine - but I would feed the rock.