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Curing Live rock

Monday, August 11th, 2008 | Author: admin

I bought recently bought a 60lbs of Uaniva liverock from an NJreefers.com group buy, and of course it had to be cured before adding
it to any tank.
When curing live rock some people like to use regular tap water with marine salt mix and maybe a de-chlorinator. I chose to use RO/DI water for my curing process. I did water changes every 4-5 of days an used activated carbon, changing it every other day. During the first 5 days the rock and water will have a real foul smell…. since I was curing the rock on my basement the smell pretty much took over the whole house. Pictured on the right is my RO/DI filter, I have it connected to a garden hose timer so I can have run for about 3 hours at a time
The orange hose is the “waste” water which I feed into my washing machine so it can be re-used
The clear hose is the RO/DI water which I collect into a tapped 35G Garbage bin
This is the tub I used for the curing process, its running an
aquaclear 4000 powerhead to pump water externally though a heater and then back into the tub via spray bar. Its also running a skimmer that has a carbon media bin. The lighting is optional and I decided to only use it during the last week 8 hours a day

The window pictured is just there to support the bulbs and reflector
Here you can see the whole tub which I have raised 5″ from the floor to insulate it a little since the concrete floor in the basement can be quite cold in the winter



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