Rock cooking, it does work.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6450468#post6450468 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SeanT
No you don't HAVE to.
Bu I would seriously advise you doing so.
There are many people who went BB that didn't "cook" their rocks and will tell you horror stories about how their nitrates ballooned up.
As the rock is shedding detritus in such large amounts there is no sandbed to catch it.
"Cooking" your rocks in advance will save a lot of pain in the future.
THere really is no shortcut. :(

Sean
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I was one of these, cook em!
 
Hey a vendor told me that cured live rock is the same thing as cooked rocked is this true? I have a hard time beliving this but this is what the vendor is telling me and of course the cured rock cost more than the uncured rock.
Any thoughts before i send my paypal :)
 
Will running a skimmer on the 'cooking' tub be beneficial in any way? Can it reduce the amount of water changes in the tub? Of course regular dunking and swishing rules would still apply.
 
I ran a crappy Berlin skimmer on a tub a year ago, it really didn't speed the time up any.
I have always wondered if GFO's would speed it up though.

Sean
 
I have read the entire tread all 18 pages and I can't see any were that newly collected rock is sent off to the cooking pot. but I do see that lots of people are doing it to there older rock. does it matter if I cook newly collected rock? I want to do this right the first time out :) sorry if I am asking to many questions. Here goes a picture of the tank that it will be going in. 120 gallon cube can't wait to set it up.
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Wow! And I thought my gloves werent long enough to move things around in my 24" cube. Youre going to need your swim suit to move anything near the bottom of that baby when it gets filled.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6455410#post6455410 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by trueblackpercula
I have read the entire tread all 18 pages and I can't see any were that newly collected rock is sent off to the cooking pot. but I do see that lots of people are doing it to there older rock. does it matter if I cook newly collected rock?
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I think this was addressed but I am not reading through it all to prove a point. :D

You aren't getting "new" rock.
You are getting aqauCLUTTERED rock.
The rock you receive in that Walt Smith box has been taken from the Ocean and been left out of water for countless days, weeks in total.
There is so much die off inside by the time you get it.

Now, I have read, that they are shipping some rock here by boat.
So it is out of the water completely for a week or more.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6455410#post6455410 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by trueblackpercula
I want to do this right the first time out :)
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Then staaarrrt "cooking". :)

hth,
Sean
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6455050#post6455050 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ereefic
I can throw my MR-2 on there, what do you think?
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I think it would be overkill.
But hey, I like overkill. :)
 
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