Hey
Guy, what’s up! Haven’t seen you around this neck of the woods in a while â€"œ you’ve been good?
It’s funny that you checked in when you did â€"œ Travis sent me a PM a couple of days ago asking how everything on the thread was going â€"œ his time has been stretched so thin that he barely has time to post, it sounds like, let alone keep up with the thread…
Anyway, there has been some progress, of sorts. I think it can be said with some confidence that by adding heat and movement to the kure bins, that kure time is usually drastically shortened â€"œ this is no longer a “myth†or hearsay, I’ve seen it happen again and again myself, and others have reported success with it too.
I’ve been researching carbonation as a different way to “kure†rock, though it really isn’t about kuring at that point, but transforming. I think there will always need to be a kure bath, as there will almost always be some calcium hydroxide that doesn’t get converted to calcium carbonate, but I think with carbonation, that can come down to a week or two.
I’ve come up with one carbonation method that seems to have some promise for the hobbyist (as opposed to those of us who are hoping to make a little money on this), which is a wet-dry cycle kure. I had great luck with basically watering my rock on the porch last fall. I set it around one of my flower beds and when the sprinkler was on, the rock would get wet down fairly well and dry out over the night and next day. I left them out like that for around 3-4 weeks and when I went to kure them it took a little over 2 weeks to do so and fewer water changes than I expected. This of course works best on appropriately cured rock, that is, rock that is around 28 days old. Goldmaniac posted a while back that he had a batch of rock sort of stuck at a little over 9, and I suggested that he clean his bins for one, to make sure the accumulation around the top of the water edge wasn’t messing with the test, and then to fill and drain on a regular cycle, allowing the rock to dry between fills, and that finished the rock out in around a week, if I remember correctly.
And finally, I’ve revised the Jiffy Rock Method, but you can read about that here:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=11580844#post11580844
So how about a picture of your rock? Is it in your system yet?
Talk to us, Guy
And Welcome to the Thread,
Too Fly :wavehand:
Always nice to get new people
Thanks for the post and info.
