Picture of coral I collected from my back yard. Are these ok?

[miogpsrocks]

Here is a link to my microsoft sky drive for the corals I collected in my backyard.

http://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=F2A351ED2F429420!1576&authkey=!AC8OkqEK7LWnoXU&ithint=folder%2cJPG



Please tell me if these are ok to use in my aquarium.

I was going to blast them with a garden house with a nozzle attachment then throw them in a bucked with bleach then a bucket with dechlorination for a few days.

Someone told me that boiling or baking the rocks are a bad idea right?

Thanks.

 

[jrp1588]

I think I remember your previous thread on the subject. I'd say they're probably fine, but I don't know of a way to tell for sure. Definitely clean them thoroughly. I'm not sure why you'd want to boil rock.

I'd let them sit in some water for a good while with some lanthanum chloride to strip out phosphates.

 

[gone fishin]

from what I can tell they look ok.

Yes it is a really bad idea to boil, bake, cook, deepfry, or BBQ rocks. It is a good way to get paly toxin and other bad things into the air and inhalation can make you, other people and pets very sick or worse.

 

[jrp1588]

from what I can tell they look ok.

Yes it is a really bad idea to boil, bake, cook, deepfry, or BBQ rocks. It is a good way to get paly toxin and other bad things into the air and inhalation can make you, other people and pets very sick or worse.

These rocks are thousands of years dead. No real risk of palytoxin there. I think I have heard of issues with rocks exploding though due to a large difference in surface and internal temperatures.

 

[gone fishin]

yes they do look like old dry rocks.

I will still throw that precaution out there. Many folks hear the term "cook" the rocks and will actually try to boil or bake rocks. There are incidence of this happening releasing toxins into the air causing harm.

 

[jrp1588]

yes they do look like old dry rocks.

I will still throw that precaution out there. Many folks hear the term "cook" the rocks and will actually try to boil or bake rocks. There are incidence of this happening releasing toxins into the air causing harm.

I'm aware, he dug these out of the back yard though. Definitely good to point out the dangers though. Sometimes it's strange to think of just how deadly Zoas can be.

 

[gone fishin]

I'm aware, he dug these out of the back yard though. Definitely good to point out the dangers though. Sometimes it's strange to think of just how deadly Zoas can be.

yes it is. For so many beautiful creatures in the ocean there are some pretty nasty toxins.

I always like to try and point out the whole "cooking" thing especially in this forum.

 

[MJV0103]

I like tossing mine on the grill with alittle BBQ sauce. Low and slow, low my rocks nice and tender

 

[jrp1588]

I like tossing mine on the grill with alittle BBQ sauce. Low and slow, low my rocks nice and tender

I usually pan fry mine with some olive oil, sea salt, and pepper. I prefer a lighter seasoning so you can taste the rock, not just what you put on it.

 

[CStrickland]

Butane torch in a seedy hotel room for me

I think the danger in boiling dry rock is that pockets of air or steam or someting that are trapped way inside the rock can expand as they heat up. If enough pressure builds it can burst the rock and send shrapnel or break the pot they are in. Like how old pressure cookers used to blow up.

I'd be working on the phosphates more than anything the bleach will address.

 

[jrp1588]

Butane torch in a seedy hotel room for me
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Bahaha. You win

 

[seamonster124]

Pressure wash. Bleach, rinse, dry and u are good Togo. There are people selling their backyard rocks as dry rock on eBay

 

[mr9iron]

Throw them in a tub with some muriatic acid and water for a couple of hours. Then you can bleach them, and set them in the sun for a week or so.

 

[mcozad829]

If you have the time I'd rinse them off well and put them in a tank/tub of saltwater... give it a bit and test for phosphates and PH. If its not leaching a lot of phosphates and it's buffering your PH i'd say its fine.

 

[Ron Reefman]

If you have the time I'd rinse them off well and put them in a tank/tub of saltwater... give it a bit and test for phosphates and PH. If its not leaching a lot of phosphates and it's buffering your PH i'd say its fine.

+1

Wash them, bleach them, soak them in salt water and test the water after a day and again after a week. If there is no ammonia, nitrare or phosphate, you are probably good to go.