I got a shipment of corals in which the shipping materials were damaged, so no charges or anything, but I gave the corals and shrooms a shot in my tank. Some are doing ok, but some of them are dying. My question is, should I whack the dying ones off the rock and keep the LR in the tank, or is the rock considered tainted now and should it be tossed as well? There's some pretty good sized pieces of rock, I'd hate to toss 'em, but I don't want to pollute the tank either.
Save the rock or ditch it?
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Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
Cure the rock and use it.
Ok, that was a good idea IN THEORY, to save the rock. But holy crap, what a nasty stench a dying shroom can give off??? I had no idea something that lived in water could emit such a noxious odor! Now, I have lived most of my adult life with animals and men (by choice too!), and I have NEVER smelled anything like that before. I scraped that mushroom off the rock, and the smell was so overpowering, i nearly keeled over. Hence, the rock was not saved. Not only that, murphy's law kicked in somewhere along the line, and the multiple bags that i used to wrap the stinky shroom and rock in somehow tore and leaked in the garbage can in the garage, and then the garbage can leaked a nice little stream over to my car. Now there's this awful odor permeating my car that I can't get rid of, much like the Seinfeld episode, oh where will it end? Someone please tell me this has happened to them too, at least the part about the stinky mushroom!
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
Dead marine critter = stench.
Everyone here has had something die on them at one point or another.
Everyone here has had something die on them at one point or another.
