never curing Lrock help please

[khoivo1]

I had been reading about curing rock for new tank and some reefeducation web site like this site

http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=16&cat=1990&articleid=2833

saying that need to change water during cure process
and also this site too http://www.liveaquaria.com/general/general.cfm?general_pagesid=31

and in here reefcentral this guy saying No need to change water
during cycle the tanks with uncured rock ,
In a new tank, just put the rock right in there and cure it IN the tank. No need to do anything special to the water, other than salt and temperature (and of course start with RO or RO/DI water).

Just keep the circulation up and rotate the rock periodically so something does not get trapped under it to fester.


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,so ,who is right ?? i am so confuse so please give me some advice to do the right way here
thanks a lot

 

[badfish]

If the rock is uncured, i would cure it in a plastic tub. No need to do water changes. After all the die off,scrub any thing else off the rock that might be decaying.
If the rock that you bought is fully cured, then put it in the tank and let the cycle begin.

 

[alexb518]

no, you DO need to change the water. easiest/cheapest way to do is to put them in a rubbermaid w/heater and powerhead and change the water several times a week.

 

[badfish]

"so ,who is right ?? I am so confuse so please give me some advice to do the right way here
thanks a lot"

I agree with the heater and powerhead. You want the die off so I don't see the point of doing water changes. I guess to keep the beneficial bacteria. I have never had a problem curing rock the way I described to.

 

[bertoni]

The rock will cure with or without water changes. Either way will work. Doing the water changes might help save some animals on the rock and speed the process. Whether that's worth the effort is an individual chocie.

 

[Mirage2521]

for what it's worth I read somewhere that one of the reasons for changing the water is that if there is a big die off on the rock the water will get pretty smelly

 

[cdangel0]

Smelly water aside. If there is a lot of die off it will cause the amonia to get too high for the bacteria and any little hitch-hickers on the rock to live. The purpose of the water change is simply to keep your amonia and nitrite from hitting toxic level during the curing process.

Either in tank or in rubber maid container is fine, either water change or no water change is fine, just determines what your end result is going to look like and how long it is going to take to get there i.e more amonia = more die off = longer curing procees/cycle.

 

[hmello@bermexin]

^^^^^^^^This is the reasoning.

 

[SaltyDr]

Monitor the ammonia and if it gets too high, do a water change to bring it to less toxic levels.

 

[wizzbane15]

If you have a skimmer, It would be a good idea to use it too.