lr when is it safe to add

[boat guy]

ibought a used 125,it came with about 100lbs of live rock covered in alage ibrought in home in totes very littel water.i just used the water hose and hot water to blast the heavy alage off. i have a 29 galon coritine tankset up so i put it in there.and a 10 gal hospital tank set up.the lighting is poor on both .but i was suprized to see some life comming outpenut worm, minni feather dusters .apolip hear and their that survived and some sponges.i had them in the tanks for 3 days now. and one other factor is i had a dog face puffer that had ich. gone now for 5 days .i dose both tanks with algafix hopping to clean it up some. i want to know how long to wait to safley move it to my 115 gal. tank i have a good clean up crew in thier .i have led 8000k realy needs live rock .when would it be safe to transfer ? am i mistaking in assumming that if a worm that dose not roam it is safe ? thanks in adv al

 

[bioneck47]

sorry but your post is a little confusing. Is your dogface dead or the ich has been gone for 5 days now? Is this rock for a reef or fish only? You probably shouldn't of used a water hose to hose off your live rock. There's a lot of bad stuff in tap water like chlorine and copper. I would def. keep it out of your tank and fishless for at least six weeks for 2 reasons: the rock probably needs to be "re-cycled", and to kill off any parasites that may reside in your rock.

 

[boat guy]

the dog face went back to lfs.alive when i left.my lfs hear suck .the guy that takes care of the tanks seams ok on water advise but poor on fish aculmation ,will not buy fish thier again. ihave a 115 fo, thats beenup for 6 months. i got the rock with craigs list deal.125 going to be a reef setup, but thats down the road.the rock has a some life left. it was covered with purpel alage.sheets! did not want to kill it all fond some sponges and misulanious stuff on it.after rinsing off.but some of the alage is comming back.it is stacked high in a smll tank with 36 watt light.but startting to have a bloom of alage so will leave in the tank to cycle. at least untill i get the alage under control . thank you

 

[ajroc31]

Stay away from tap water, no matter how hot. If you are ever cleaning something use Ro water, or water from your tank that you just pulled out.

 

[ajroc31]

I am also little confused by your post. As long as you don't put anything in your tank, don't worry the algea, not sure what type you have will die, since it won't have any phosphates to survive. Let your tank cycle. LR does not need lights, so, if you want to get rid of the algea, leave them off. As for life in your Lr, don't worry, its pretty hardy, and most will survive.

 

[boat guy]

thank you. i was not thinking ,i do have a ro .some purple . almost black now dieng off, i hope some orange looking stuff.some green seams to be blooming. and some silver looking bubble.forming. i was wondering how long for the ich to die off ? is it ok to use alagaefix by api to speed up the alage die off are would i be losing my good backteria to,and some surving spongs to ? thanks for all your help al

 

[ajroc31]

Personally, I hate to add any quick fix things into my tank. Turn off the lights, and eventually the algea will go away. Let nature do its work.