ok, brings me to a question.
i have a cycling system that developed a hair algae growth, decided to
switch substrate, semed to take off after i finally switched out to marine
sugar fine, 1/1/2 inches. been battling algea breakouts since, looking real
good at the moment on the battles after i gave up and took out biggest rock
and scribbed it down, and been picking the rest and siphoning, until late,
it seems slightly under control. I have cyano, redslime, maroon, hair,
green, brown, all going away, cluerpa(a pack of razorC, and a nice piece of
featherC attached to a LR)one yellow polyp farm, 2 mushrooms, one piece of
stony polyp, its not sharp edged like acropora, and it is pink and about 1
inch round knob on edge of rock. 11 hermies, 10 turbos, lots of cured,
growing, maturing LR, 60 g tank, 6g sump on biofiltration prerefugium.

i put two pieces of what i assume is aragonite rock in my tank about 3mos
ago, took out of 7 year unmaintaned blue danio frshwater habitat, scrubbed
thick green algae growth off them, accidentally soaked in TOOOOO much
bleach, then soaked in daily water changes of fresh water outside in the sun
for a week or two until the chlorine smell was gone, then i threw those
babies clean, freshly scrubbed, and rinse soaked for weeks brand new into my
tank with above mentioned parameters. to get an idea of how much rock were
talkin here, it was a bucket, with my crushed coral in there too, cc filled
about 2/3rds of bucket and rock was pushed into the substrate and stacked up
to the brim of the bucket. this new rock amounts to about atmost 1/4th of
the rock that is already cured, in the tank already.

could this be what caused the terrible bout of hairalgae breakout, or is
that breakout normal, and aside form that, is that ok what i did, putting
that much uncured rock into my system at that time? sounds like i may have
overdone it a little at that point.

by the way, thought my stonys died after finally tested phos and it was
1.0ppm, dropped it to .03ppm and got water params straightened out, and
Stonys came back lastnite!!!! havent seen them in a week, looked pale, and
gone, and half of them are back, more stretched out that when i got them, is
that a sure fire sign of good water? whoohoo! lol.
wolfhedd


"Harald" wrote in message
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"Steve "Srfmon"" wrote in message
.. .
Get a bucket of Salt water (maybe after a water change) & put your
uncured rock in there until it's not stinky anymore. You might also have
a
skimmer & a powerhead running on this bucket as well.
If your ammonia levels are still detectable after that then Get some
Nitro Max Marine to help speed along the cycling process in your tank.
If
it
is cycled some ammo-lock & a water change should help out some. Curing
rock
in a tank with inverts is not a good idea.
Steve


You'll also need a heater in the bucket. You'll want to cure the rock
under
conditions that are similar to conditions in the tank.

You will need the powerhead in the bucket. When I recured my rock, I
didn't
do water heavy changes. I figured that everything that was dying & rotting
on my rock would help the bacteria recolonize the rock. So when I recured
my
rock, I placed it in a 50g tub, added a couple of powerheads and a heater
and left it. After a week, I did a water change, then left the rock for
another week before putting it back in my tank. Worked great.

I do agree with Steve, don't cure rock in a tank that has invert or fish
life in it. It's a baaaad idea.

hth

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Harald
130 g Skimmerless SW Tank
290 lbs/6" DSB
70 lbs LR
3 B/G Chromis, 1 Tomato Clown, 1 Lawnmower Blenny, 1 Flame Angel, 1
Foxface.

20 gal Skimmerless SW Nano
80 lbs/6" DSB
31 lbs LR,
1 - 3-Striped damsel, 1 Blue Devil, 1 sm. Tang