Lr ?

hunt30

hunt30

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Ok sorry I know I keep posting questions but I am trying to turn my 55 into a reef tank. When i first got my tank I bought like 10 15 lbs of LR and the rest tufa and waiting for it to turn into LR. I think the tufa is bad looking even once it got bact. and turn into basically LR. But anyways I was woundering if anyone knew if it would be bad if I took out a lot of tufa and put in actually LR ...(remember the tufa that is in there now has bact. and crap its been in the tank for over a year.) but would that be something not to do ....Would it mess up the fact that my tank has been cycled already.
 
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cmaxwell39

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If you added a bunch of uncured live rock at the same time it would cause the tank to go into another cycle as the live rock cures. If you add live rock that is already cured it should not cause the tank to cycle. Keep in mind that if you order live rock online and it has to be shipped to you, even if you bought cured live rock it will have some die off due to shipping and will need to be recured once you get it.
 
hunt30

hunt30

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i might not have said it right .... its just like dried out rock but not as good as LR rock I have found that it crumps a lot sometimes.
 
sign guy

sign guy

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Im with hot what is tufa? where did you get it? i meen it may be bad for a reef tank. also what is your cal. at?
 
hunt30

hunt30

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Its rock that has been takin out of the ocean and dried out .... its not as hard as LR ....you can buy it at most LFS ....its most like a light orange pinkish type of color.... kinda hard to explain ...but most LFS like I said sell it for salt water tanks.... I might not of spelled it right or said it right for that matter ?? Does that help.....anyways would it be a problem to take it out and put in LR ....?
 
hunt30

hunt30

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well its not the dark brown crap.....will it make a new cycle happen ...cause i dont want that at all... maybe ill put some picks on here of what it looks like would that help ?
 
sign guy

sign guy

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yeah if you could. but all LR will start a new cycle it is the procces of stuff dying off. If you want add 5lbs a week. but you will have to watch it like a hawk
 
sign guy

sign guy

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Originally Posted by hunt30
hey by the way sign guy lol Cin. Reds are a much better team lol
ok were done talking :hilarious 14 years straight baby 14 years
 
hunt30

hunt30

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LoL I grew up around with Reds over other weekend we would go or most home games been a fan for years too ...just wanted to give ya a hard time ...give me a sec and ill get some pics for ya.
 
sign guy

sign guy

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the next best thing to waching my fish is waching the joneses knock home runs. good to see other fans out there
 
hunt30

hunt30

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the first three are all that kind of rock i was talking about i turned one over so you can see what it looks like when it doesnt have something on it ... a little bit of an algae problem going on but its almost solved ...the big rock with some coral frags on it is the real LR....that other rock as been there for about 2 years or 1 and half... it just doenst look as good as real LR ...its still rock just not the big one ya can you see the difference besides some of the algae ???
 
hunt30

hunt30

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not sure no ...sorry havent bought a tester yet ....going to within the next few days ...since i am turnin this into a reef tank ... but it should be between 400 and like 420 right ... what I have always been told.... so would you worry about switching out the rock then ....I mean it just doesnt seem to have the same quality.
 
sign guy

sign guy

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switching the rock is your choice, I would if it were me I would but wait till you checked your cal and mack shure it is up in the 400's
 
hunt30

hunt30

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Ok thanks for the help man... and just adding it and taking a little away a week ...and do like what changes every week till i get it done ....would that help with preventing my tank to have to cycle again ???
 
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