coralline coming back after 2 yrs in storage?

All right I didn't think this was possible.
After my tank crashed I moved the hole shabang into basement
and simply kept a few power heads running, no heater, no lights,
and kept the water above the rock but not really caring about the salt
levels.

Well I was looking at the new tank tonight ( almost 3 weeks old ) and I belive
there is some green coralline on 2 of the rocks.
Am I nuts,

[Mort]

> wrote in message
...
> All right I didn't think this was possible.
> After my tank crashed I moved the hole shabang into basement
> and simply kept a few power heads running, no heater, no lights,
> and kept the water above the rock but not really caring about the salt
> levels.
>
> Well I was looking at the new tank tonight ( almost 3 weeks old ) and I
belive
> there is some green coralline on 2 of the rocks.
> Am I nuts,
>

Sounds like it =P

[Dragon Slayer]

you'd be surprised what will survive a lengthy storage like that. when I
took down my 100g a few yrs back to paint the living room I stored some of
the rock in the garage with nothing in the tank with the rock but water
which evaporated to less then half its total volume several times between
top offs. the garage is not heated and during winter the temp gets to near
freezing in there and during the summer it gets to 3 digit numbers most of
the day/night. the rock stayed in there for about 18 months before I
decided to re-use it.

it had some hair algae on it that I really didn't want to make a go when it
got placed into a new setup so I went and picked up some swimming pool
chlorine and mixed 2 lbs in a gallon of water and used this solution to
spray on the rocks which I had now sitting on the BBQ grills side rack. the
bleach melted the hair algae, turned the rock nice and white and left my
fingers a few layers of skin lighter then before.

I let the bleach set for about 15 min and then hosed it off with a high
pressure attachment. dropped the rock into a tank of new water and added
salt and a few powerheads to mix. let it mix for a few days while I
adjusted the salinity.

about 2 weeks passed before I noticed a few feather worms sticking out of
some of the rock (mind you the old bleached rock was the only rock in the
tank, no new "seed" rocks were added) and within a month coralline was
growing. I would have thought every thing on the rocks were dead long
before the bleaching and if anything had survived the bleach would have
killed it for sure, but amazingly a lot pulled through the trauma of it all.

kc

[Marc Levenson]

Unbelieveable.

I've had a trashcan sitting in the corner of the guestroom with about 4 gallons
of water in it with no heat, no circulation, nothing but pebbles of LR and a
stinky skimmer. I had been cycling the rock so it wouldn't crash my tank, even
though it never did have any type of spike when I tested it.

Anyway, about 2 months later I made myself take that thing outside to rinse it
out and found a fist-size piece of LR. It didn't smell bad and looked just
fine. I put it in my 55g's sump. <grin> Waste not, want not, right?

A long aptasia was growing on the inner edge of the trashcan just beneath the
water's surface.

Marc


Dragon Slayer wrote:

> you'd be surprised what will survive a lengthy storage like that. when I
> took down my 100g a few yrs back to paint the living room I stored some of
> the rock in the garage with nothing in the tank with the rock but water
> which evaporated to less then half its total volume several times between
> top offs. the garage is not heated and during winter the temp gets to near
> freezing in there and during the summer it gets to 3 digit numbers most of
> the day/night. the rock stayed in there for about 18 months before I
> decided to re-use it.
>
> it had some hair algae on it that I really didn't want to make a go when it
> got placed into a new setup so I went and picked up some swimming pool
> chlorine and mixed 2 lbs in a gallon of water and used this solution to
> spray on the rocks which I had now sitting on the BBQ grills side rack. the
> bleach melted the hair algae, turned the rock nice and white and left my
> fingers a few layers of skin lighter then before.
>
> I let the bleach set for about 15 min and then hosed it off with a high
> pressure attachment. dropped the rock into a tank of new water and added
> salt and a few powerheads to mix. let it mix for a few days while I
> adjusted the salinity.
>
> about 2 weeks passed before I noticed a few feather worms sticking out of
> some of the rock (mind you the old bleached rock was the only rock in the
> tank, no new "seed" rocks were added) and within a month coralline was
> growing. I would have thought every thing on the rocks were dead long
> before the bleaching and if anything had survived the bleach would have
> killed it for sure, but amazingly a lot pulled through the trauma of it all.
>
> kc

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Unbelieveable.

I've had a trashcan sitting in the corner of the guestroom with about 4 gallons
of water in it with no heat, no circulation, nothing but pebbles of LR and a
stinky skimmer. I had been cycling the rock so it wouldn't crash my tank, even
though it never did have any type of spike when I tested it.

Anyway, about 2 months later I made myself take that thing outside to rinse it
out and found a fist-size piece of LR. It didn't smell bad and looked just
fine. I put it in my 55g's sump. <grin> Waste not, want not, right?

A long aptasia was growing on the inner edge of the trashcan just beneath the
water's surface.

Marc


Dragon Slayer wrote:

> you'd be surprised what will survive a lengthy storage like that. when I
> took down my 100g a few yrs back to paint the living room I stored some of
> the rock in the garage with nothing in the tank with the rock but water
> which evaporated to less then half its total volume several times between
> top offs. the garage is not heated and during winter the temp gets to near
> freezing in there and during the summer it gets to 3 digit numbers most of
> the day/night. the rock stayed in there for about 18 months before I
> decided to re-use it.
>
> it had some hair algae on it that I really didn't want to make a go when it
> got placed into a new setup so I went and picked up some swimming pool
> chlorine and mixed 2 lbs in a gallon of water and used this solution to
> spray on the rocks which I had now sitting on the BBQ grills side rack. the
> bleach melted the hair algae, turned the rock nice and white and left my
> fingers a few layers of skin lighter then before.
>
> I let the bleach set for about 15 min and then hosed it off with a high
> pressure attachment. dropped the rock into a tank of new water and added
> salt and a few powerheads to mix. let it mix for a few days while I
> adjusted the salinity.
>
> about 2 weeks passed before I noticed a few feather worms sticking out of
> some of the rock (mind you the old bleached rock was the only rock in the
> tank, no new "seed" rocks were added) and within a month coralline was
> growing. I would have thought every thing on the rocks were dead long
> before the bleaching and if anything had survived the bleach would have
> killed it for sure, but amazingly a lot pulled through the trauma of it all.
>
> kc

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Unbelieveable is the word. I'm pretty shure at this point thats it's coralline.
I was looking tonight and noticed some pink ok, I can get my fingers to this
without moving things. it chips off and I'm shure it wasn't there when I moved
the rocks in. Well time will tell and I'll admit if i'm wrong.