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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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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