Curing Live Rock
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, 02-02-2010 at 11:34 PM (1699 Views)
A week into my first experience curing LR and beginning to wonder if I'm doing it right. I bought 100 lbs of rock from a wholesaler in California and picked it up at the Seattle airport. I have placed the rock in a 30 gallon Rubbermaid trash can full of salt water (about .022 sg) and have a 600 lph submersible sitting on top of the rock with a pipe running to the bottom. I am heating the water to about 78 f. I can see water movement, but not as much as I expected. After a week the water is clear (maybe a bit yellow), and there is really not much odor. I have pulled it all out once and rearranged to make sure everything get's flow, and really nothing was that smelly. I was expecting the big stink based on all that I have read.
The order for the rock was placed at about 5 PM one afternoon and I had it in water the next morning by 9. Did I just get lucky and get fresh rock?
By the way, I'm new to this forum as of two weeks ago and happy to be here.
SM