You would probably have to "cure" it in freshwater. Usually when you buy live rock (I think you are reffering to live rock as "coral") you have to let it cure in saltwater without fish in it, because all of the organisms living in the pores of the rock will die and this can really mess with your water quality! This can take weeks or even months, and if you don't know how to do it, I would recommend looking through the saltwater forums for more info.
can I use sea coral in my tank???
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fisher12889;3702974; said:
when people talk about curing its referring to live rock. He is taking dead "rock" or coral from the beach that has been laying in the sun drying up all dead organism. I think just boiling it will take care of killing off anything else and it'll just be like adding a piece of slate or rock into a tank, it probably will raise ph as state but as far as "curing" it in the sense you are thinking, I don't think it will be a problem.
If you want to put it in there, and don't want the problems of water chemsitry being altered, give it a few light coats of a thin epoxy, like west systems or mas. That will seal it up good, and you can't really see the epoxy, especially after a little algae growth.
mmm I dunno about epoxy though, I think I will just boil it first then I try it in my spare tank with some feeders in it, maybe for week and see how it goes with it, but thanks for the input, some suggest that its a dead coral, and its true, those are the type of rocks/sea coral that I would use, I'll post some pics of those corals as soon as I get those. Besides I like free stuff, lol.kzimmerman;3706407; said:
thanks again.
