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Old 08-16-2017, 04:48 AM
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A local person had there nano tank crash well they were on holidays and I offered to take in there one clown and a few coral. My wife picked it up the stuff since I was at work and stuck them in my 36g that I keep around for new arrivals as a qt. I have live rock in it now, and I guess she gave my wife a bucket of live rock as well. Should I clean it out by dipping it in a few buckets, or should I cook it since she had a crash?

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Old 08-16-2017, 05:59 AM
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Rock is cheap. Just toss it, IMO.
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Old 08-16-2017, 12:22 PM
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I'd "cook" it, if by "cook" you mean flushing it in a tub for several weeks while doing 100% water changes.

Don't use a stove to "cook" it. You could potentially make your entire family very, very sick.
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Old 08-16-2017, 02:12 PM
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Yep that's what I meant by cook it. I know not to do the oven lol

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Old 08-16-2017, 02:23 PM
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Yep that's what I meant by cook it. I know not to do the oven lol
I figured. Just wanted to make sure anyone reading this wouldn't get confused.
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Old 08-16-2017, 03:45 PM
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Cook it for sure. Visit BRS TV on YouTube and watch their recent video on curing live rock.
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But... Why not just toss it? You'll use up a bucket of salt "cooking" it if done properly. That's $50-100. What's a pail of live/dry rock worth?
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I want to know what crashed the tank? That'd be my concern...
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Whey would you want to kill the live rock ? Rock is NOT cheap as other poster implied. If you are worried put in a bucket for a few days and keep the rock alive.
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Whey would you want to kill the live rock ? Rock is NOT cheap as other poster implied. If you are worried put in a bucket for a few days and keep the rock alive.
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He said there's a bucket of rock. That's maybe 10-12 lbs? At $7/lb, that's $70-86. What's a bucket of salt worth? Because you'll be using ~100 gallons of it to do proper water changes on the 20-gallon tank you'd use to cook the rock. If you're like me, you pay ~$90/bucket of salt (160 gallons), so that adds up to about $50 in salt PLUS THE TIME YOU WASTE ON IT. I'm going to stop the rest of the doing the math here because it should be pretty obvious by now that it's a colossal waste of time. And that's just the economics side of it. Recall this is rock from a tank that crashed.
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