Beautiful tank liquidg! I can only hope to have a tank that colorful and vibrant one day.
I am hoping to do this right and avoid some of the nasty surprises I've read about with people setting up their new tanks.
Could you give me some advice on your bleaching procedure? I read another post that said 10:1 water/bleach. Let it soak for a day, then rinse the rock, use declorinator, and cure from there. Does this sound right?
Thanks in advance.
I get the hottest water I can in a 20 litre bucket and add 3 cups of pure liquid bleach from the super market and then sit in the dead rock and twist the bucket in my hands to circulate the water around the rock off and on for a couple times per hour till it is cold water and then leave the buckets sit for two days.
I then take it out rinse it thoroughly and soak it in RO water a few times and leave it in the weather for a couple of weeks to a month.
Or if our drain-creek is running at the time from rain I sit it in there for a couple of days after bleaching, I did that the last time.
I have tried the bacteria thing and it does not carry over!
I do this as well.
http://southeastqueenslandm.aforumfree.com/t1916-making-your-own-coral-encrusted-live-rock
Oh and These are important and I do mine with algae, don’t you try nutrient control that way, you need some serious understanding of bio functions to do it that way.
First up, have in place if you can some caulerpa, never in the display though!!!
Not much is needed but this helps balance nutrients, you won’t have enough or the correct amount or correct ones to do it all, but some balancing is a must.
Balancing means that algae will import not just nutrients but toxins as well that they convert via photosynthesis and leach them into the surrounding waters of all kinds of valuable elements.
Caulerpa species, more so racemosa are the only marine algae that will do this affectively!
Then make up a little reactor for nitra guard titanium on one level and some GFH on the next to assist the nitra guard with its other work upon phos.
You need to account for nitrate and phos no “matter what” or don’t go with stationary inverts at all.
Anything somewhere will provide some surface area and account for the nitrogen cycle to nitrate, from then on most tanks can not account for nitrate and phos with out help.