I bought around 7 pound of live rock from a local reefer the rock was sitting out of water but was still moist for about a day and had some green hair algae on it. I scrubbed all of the algae off and let the live rock cure in a bucket for about 10 days with a powerhead and heater and have done 2...
I recently bought 10 pounds of live rock with green hair algae (I got it for an extremely good deal at $.50 a pound). The rock was out of water for a day But was still moist when I bought it. The rock has been sitting in a bucket with water and a powerhead until I can figure out what to do with...
Hey everyone I'm going to restart my 5 gallon soon and want to do a real nice scape, locking rocks together to make it look like either one rock or at least a cool structure. What type of epoxy, cements etc do you recommend?
Randy,
Muriatic acid, Live Rock and Vermetid snails... oh my !!! How long after acid before you can use the rock again?
I tore down my 90 gallon and was doing a reset when decided to go bigger. I had infants and had a big battle with vermetid snails, the tank went into maintenance mode only...
So I am in the middle of a battle with Red Planaria which has been going on for several months now. I've tried manual removal (keeps the population down, but it comes back), Flatworm eXit (corals do not like this), 12 Line Wrasse, and a Blue Velvet Nudibranch. Some of these have shown promise...
I've been soaking some rock in freshwater for 3 weeks or so and finally got some LaCl to help get phosphate out. Rock is soaking with a powerhead for circulation.
I added the first dose of the LaCl. As expected the water clouded up and within about 24 hours it cleared up.
My question is should...