Faisal1976us
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Hi ,,,,,
What is the best way for treat base rocks from the beach ? i wont to remove po4 from the rocks !
What is the best way for treat base rocks from the beach ? i wont to remove po4 from the rocks !
Treat base rocks from the beach !
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DamnPepShrimp
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Cook them. Keep them in a tub with a lid so they are in darkness and do water changes until you have no more phos. Be sure to add food though to keep the bacteria alive. It will take some time before the rock is cured enough to put into your tank.
RokleM
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"Cooking them" won't remove p04 as far as I'm aware. An acid bath should remove surface p04. Usage of a p04 remover material during "cooking" would possibly help as well, but it's hard to tell how much p04 is bound up in the rock.
Personally I can't comment on your situation any further other than a) as mentioned it's certainly possible you shouldn't be removing anything and b) I can't say I'd trust any rock on the shore without having more details.
Personally I can't comment on your situation any further other than a) as mentioned it's certainly possible you shouldn't be removing anything and b) I can't say I'd trust any rock on the shore without having more details.
darkdruid
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Re: Treat base rocks from the beach !
I lived in Florida and used rocks from the beach, especially ones tossed up during a storm, for years, with nothing more than a freshwater rinse. And that was from the faucet, not ro/di water. I never had a problem and always had great tanks.
Alot of people on here are so worried about using anything that didn't come from the fish store, that they miss out on alot of cool stuff. Don't use rock, sand, fish, crabs, plants. etc. from the ocean, you never know about them...lol. When I started doing saltwater, the stores didn't carry much of anything, you collected your own. Going out spending the day looking for cool things at the beach or the grass flats was half the fun of having a tank.
The only difference between most of the stuff at your LFS and things you collect or catch yourself....somebody else collected the stuff, from the ocean, and sold it to a wholeseller who then sold it to your LFS.
I lived in Florida and used rocks from the beach, especially ones tossed up during a storm, for years, with nothing more than a freshwater rinse. And that was from the faucet, not ro/di water. I never had a problem and always had great tanks.
Alot of people on here are so worried about using anything that didn't come from the fish store, that they miss out on alot of cool stuff. Don't use rock, sand, fish, crabs, plants. etc. from the ocean, you never know about them...lol. When I started doing saltwater, the stores didn't carry much of anything, you collected your own. Going out spending the day looking for cool things at the beach or the grass flats was half the fun of having a tank.
The only difference between most of the stuff at your LFS and things you collect or catch yourself....somebody else collected the stuff, from the ocean, and sold it to a wholeseller who then sold it to your LFS.
mfp4073
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to the original poster, just to be clear, many states have laws against collecting rock from the beach or reefs. I think at some point it becomes a felony too. There was a guy from around here a few years ago that got a softball sized piece of rock from the beach, someone reported him and government agents showed up at his door. I am not making this up.
darkdruid
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I think bouncing on the waves all day in those little boats makes the Marine Patrol a little cranks sometimes....lol. It's about the money as much as it is the ecology. A company can put rocks in the ocean and take them back out anytime they want, as long as they pay for a lease site, and bucks for permits and such. That also includes any corals growing on the rocks. If you do the same thing though, you go to jail. That's poaching live rock and the collecting of ALL stonies is prohibited, no matter how small.
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