Curing Methods

[Kronk]

I am currently "cooking" some rock this is how it was explained to me...

1. Place some tank water in the bucket when u do water change.
2. In another bucket, mix up saltwater at equal salinity to your tank.
3. Take the new rock and "SWOOSH" and "DUNK" many times in the bucket with your old water. Do it alot so everything falls out.
4. Place the rocks in the bucket with freshly mixed saltwater.
5. Put a powerhead in and put the bucket in a drak place without any light.
6. Do water change everyweek, or better yet, do a bucket change. When you do bucket change, make sure you "SWOOSH" and "DUNK" in your bucket that rock was sitting for a week.
7. Wait some more.
8. Wait for about a month doing bucket change every week.
9. You will have "enhanced super version" of live rock which contains NO ALGAE and are FULL OF BACTERIA.

The theory behind seems good anyways. I have had about 15lbs of rock cooking for a couple months and every couple weeks when i change the bucket there is a TON of crud in the bottom. Heres a link for some more info if you want it... http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-0...ture/index.php

Cheers,
Ken