"cooking" rock

[Anonymous]

has anyone ever tried this?

it is news to me, but from what i hear it is a way to cleanse LR of excess nutrients by starving the bacteria living inside of it.

i though it sounded interesting.

 

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a perfect was to create deadrock instead of liverock.

Once the bacteria is dead, what good is the rock?

Louey

 

[danmhippo]

Makw sure you add a few leaves of Thyme and sage. Gotta get the seasoning right for the soup.

 

[danmhippo]

Rid the excess nutrient? I don't know about that, but I've cooked a few pieces of LR before to rid the God Damned GHA

 

[SpecialK]

I have done this and I will say it works wonders!
I did it because of hair algae, I placed my rock in a large Trash can with water from a water change that I did. I dropped a PH in the trash can covered it and let it sit. Well 2 months later the hair algae was gone and the population of pods was amazing......
I put the rock back in my tank 9 or so months ago and still no hair algae.

Dont cook it on your stove just put it in a dark area with PH's and let it sit, thats called cooking rock.
Kaye

 

[Anonymous]

yeah, what i am hearing is described as putting the rock in curing type of conditions... but every week you blow the crud off and place the rock in a new vat of clean saltwater.

people with problematic tanks are finding this to work for them in ridding chronic hair algae.

 

[ChrisRD]

I guess I've done it in advertently. I've stored extra live rock in covered buckets with nothing more than some old tank water and powerheads for months at a time. It killed all the algae and photosynthetic stuff, but when put back in a tank there were no cycle or stocking issues and pod populations and coralline returned quickly. The bacteria and pods we're concerned with aren't photosynthetic and there's probably plenty of organic decay going-on to sustain them for a while under those conditions.

 

[SpecialK]

Thats what I did also ChrisRD, I never did a water change but I did check SG levels and topped off when needed. With a lid I had very little evaporation with it.

Kaye

 

[Anonymous]

I am kind of doong that now. I have half of my rocks in a storage container. I keep the water tooped off, but am not lighting it or adding any food. Their is a large amount of gunk on the bottom of the container. I think the idea is to not feed the rock and let what is in them decay untill it can not feed the water. Dunking and water changes just speeds up the process.