curing liverock

[dlauber]

I read this somewhere
"If the rock is small enough or your toilet is big enough. Put it in the upper chamber. Think of all the water changes it will receive in 1 day"
Im not sure if the guy was serious or not...
But would that work, or are there other steps needed to make it work?
or is it just bull
also I was wondering what it really takes to kill live rock, what can it stand up to? Is there any specific thing you should not do to live rock for risk of killing it?

 

[rdhanley]

Only Problem With The Toilet Theory Is The Water Would Be Freshwater. You Need Saltwater To Cure The Live Rock In. Cured Live Rock Means The Reading All Show Zero.
Curing Live Rock Is The Process Of Cleaning All The Bad Stuff Off Of The Rock.

 

[rdhanley]

Originally Posted by Dlauber
I read this somewhere
"If the rock is small enough or your toilet is big enough. Put it in the upper chamber. Think of all the water changes it will receive in 1 day"
Im not sure if the guy was serious or not...
But would that work, or are there other steps needed to make it work?
or is it just bull
also I was wondering what it really takes to kill live rock, what can it stand up to? Is there any specific thing you should not do to live rock for risk of killing it?
LIVE ROCK NEEDS TO BE SUBMERGED IN SALTWATER AT ALL TIMES TO PREVENT KILLING THE ROCK.

 

[dlauber]

#8 10-03-2005, 05:54 PM
pbienkiewi
Posts: 541
If the rock is small enough or your toilet is big enough. Put it in the upper chamber. Think of all the water changes it will receive in 1 day
#9 10-03-2005, 08:53 PM
n2deep
Posts: 82
thats a good Idea!!
#10 10-03-2005, 08:59 PM
TheGrog
Posts: 2,232
Just be sure your girlfriend does not put in a chlorine toilet cleaner tab into the toilet tank.....trust me on this one!!! Lost a few good peices.
#11 10-03-2005, 11:37 PM
ThaNgBom
Posts: 1,526
yupper no clorine.. and it's good to know that someone read my tiolet idea...
#12 01-04-2006, 04:33 PM
Schadiest1
Posts: 1,126
garf.org suggests soaking the rocks in white vinegar for 12 hours before puting them into fresh water.
thats a section taken from another thread
but apparently theres people who think differently, unless they werent being serious. They sounded serious.

 

[dogstar]

The conversation in the thread your refering to is how to cure DIY rock....its not live rock, but rock that people make themselfs out of cement.....cureing it in freshwater allows the chemicals ect. to leach out so that its safe for a tank. After cureing and placeing it in a display tank and then cycleing, the hope is that then it will become live and the points that were made here ring true for live rock as in the term you included in the title of this thread.

 

[dlauber]

alright thanks, I thought it meant, DIY cure rock
not cure DIY rock

 

[ocellaris_keeper]

Originally Posted by Dlauber
I read this somewhere
"If the rock is small enough or your toilet is big enough. Put it in the upper chamber. Think of all the water changes it will receive in 1 day"
Im not sure if the guy was serious or not...
But would that work, or are there other steps needed to make it work?
or is it just bull
also I was wondering what it really takes to kill live rock, what can it stand up to? Is there any specific thing you should not do to live rock for risk of killing it?
silliest thing I've ever read. Don;t try this - the animals on your live rock really don't like fresh water.
Just put it in a hospital tank with a power head, a heater and no lights for a week and you should be good to go.