I'm going BB (question)
 

I have decided to go bare bottom, the amount of debris that I keep clouding my tank with my Turkey Baster is just too much. I am in a really good position right now to do it so that makes it a lot easier! I am moving :lol:
I do have 2 or 3 rocks with a fair amount of hair algae; what is the best way to rid them of it?
Cook/boil/bake
fresh water dip and stiff brush
salt water and stiff brush

Thanks in advance!
Also, if anyone knows where to get a larger piece of the "cutting board" material, can you tell me? Wal-Mart wants 7 bucks for a 12x18 piece

:confused:

once your nutrients go down, the hair algae should vanish on it's own. Also, I just put my rock on the glass.

Re: I'm going BB (question)
 

I would cook the rock, but I don't think that you are thinking of the same thing I am thinking. Look up cooking rock on ReefCentral, you'll find that this is an effective way of ridding algae from your rockwork.

Cooking the rock seems like a very long drawn out process ?
If I boil it won't it all die overnight? Back in the next evening :lol:

if you boiled it, you'd have nothing left alive on the rock, plus all the critters carcasses would still be inside the rock and would probably decompose, sending your tank into a cycle.

Or so my brain says, maybe someome else has another opinion.

Re: I'm going BB (question)
 

Not everyone has 6months to a year or the space to do this. it is effective but think of this, if you rid your rock of excess nutrents by cooking and then put it back on a nutrent sink how long do you think it will take to come back?

Steve

Remove as much manually as you can and reduce the nutrients in the water. It WILL go away on its own like Brad said if there is nothing there to fuel it.

Just like the hair algae rock I delivered to Muck. He put it in his tank, and the hair algae just kinda went sick and melted away. :mrgreen:

Re: I'm going BB (question)
 

Cooking rock does not take 6-12 months. And he is only concerned about 2-3 rocks, not the whole shabang.

Re: I'm going BB (question)
 

Hmm the article I read on it said to be prepared to take up to 6 months to a year depending on the size of rocks and such.

now if you are only worried about 2 or 3 rocks I would cook them on the stove top (boil them for a hour or two) then recure them in a pail.

Steve

Dude, read up on the threads on RC, SeanT is the rock chef:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...hreadid=622878

6-8 weeks is what I gathered. 6-12 months would be ridiculous! :lol:

Re: I'm going BB (question)
 

Give it a try and let us know how it goes :rolleyes:

Get rid of what feeds the algae and be done with it, no cooking required. :rolleyes:

Re: I'm going BB (question)
 

um I have and it works good :rolleyes: :mrgreen: If I had the time I would have done that to my whole lot of rock when I took the sand out.

Steve

Maybe I should just dip all the rock in a fresh batch, get rid of the sediment from the Turkey Baster rounds and start the new aquascaping with the GHA covered LR on the bottom :redface:

Just use a stiff brush and some old tank water to scrub it off. Then dunk and swish the rocks in another bucket of salt water to get some of the crud on the rocks off. You'll be surprised how much stuff comes off of the rocks.

Re: I'm going BB (question)
 

Good stuff! :rolleyes:

what's with all th erolling eyes in this thread??? :rolleyes:

Giving me a complex :confused: :rolleyes:

All I did was make a suggestion and got shot down all over the place :rolleyes:

Whateva

All over the place? C'mon, it was only Stircrazy giving you grief, you gotta watch for him doing that! :razz:

Hence the :rolleyes:

And low and behold there were zoos under there... Who Knew..?? :razz: :razz:

EDIT

oops... forgot the :rolleyes:

yup, those are an obligate feature for this thread!! :razz:

:rolleyes:

:rolleyes:

Well, I went for it. I picked off some of the large clusters and dipped the rock in a fresh batch of 1.023 and hit them with a power head. Not a lot left to come off LOL
Tonight is the first night running BB and I like it! I have two MJ 1200 's pushing everything along the bottom and I hope to pick up the skimmer soon.

http://rcpilot.users.sunwave.net/bb_day_one.jpg

Woops, I forgot

:rolleyes:

hahaa

tank looks good!!

Thanks Brad,
Not near as green as it was LOL
Can't wait for it to mature now! :biggrin:
Next up, MH

Looks good! I hope you pick up that skimmer soon though as that is an integral part of the high flow BB system.