Live rock question

[woodywoo]

I new tank has been running for about 2 weeks now and I've been taking really good care of it. Cal, ALk, ph, .... everything was in check until I read the Phos. This tank has no livestock at all in it. Only 100lbs for live rock. Well to make a longer story short I tested the po4 and it was way too high. So I was talking the situation over at the LFS and someone asked me if my rock was from my other FOWLR tank. Well acourse, I mean who's going to go out and buy more rock. The Owner at the LFS my live rocks could be leaking po4 into the water. CAN THIS HAPPEN? IF SO HOW DO I FIX IT? He said maybe pressure washing it, to get everything out of it. I was like oookkkk? SO if anyone out there has any ideas speak up!

Thanks
Aaron

 

[moumda]

If you have no livestock turn your lights off and cook your rock. BE sure and use a good skimmer while you're doing it. A phoban reactor would probably help too.

 

[woodywoo]

I have 2 phos ban reactor that I bought yesterday. loaded them with Rowa. I have a kent Nautilus skimmer. But have you ever heard about pressure washing your rock?

 

[woodywoo]

This is a 65 gallon tank. So I think the kent skimmer would do a great job.

 

[moumda]

When I went bb I used a powerhead to wash my rock off. Don't know if that's a pressure wash or not.

 

[woodywoo]

No I mean Full out pressure washing with A gas powered pressure washer. I guess I will try it and see.

 

[moumda]

IMO, you would then have base rock. Washing like that would probably kill all the life on your rock.