HELP WITH MY LIVE ROCK
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Submerse the new rock into a bucket filled with saltwater with a specific gravity of 1.035 to 1.040 for one minute. Any invertebrates including mantis shrimp, bristle worms, and crabs will quickly evacuate from the rock and into the bucket of water. Remove the live rock from the bucket and sort through the invertebrates in the bucket. Determine those you want to add to your system and discard unwanted pests. Bristle worms still attached to the rock can be removed with a pair of needle-nosed pliers or tweezers. This technique can be used to remove unwanted pests before or after curing your newly arrived live rock. You can also do this with plain, fresh water.
Submerse the new rock into a bucket filled with saltwater with a specific gravity of 1.035 to 1.040 for one minute. Any invertebrates including mantis shrimp, bristle worms, and crabs will quickly evacuate from the rock and into the bucket of water. Remove the live rock from the bucket and sort through the invertebrates in the bucket. Determine those you want to add to your system and discard unwanted pests. Bristle worms still attached to the rock can be removed with a pair of needle-nosed pliers or tweezers. This technique can be used to remove unwanted pests before or after curing your newly arrived live rock. You can also do this with plain, fresh water.
Also, I am looking to buy some other rock for my tank from someone else. It is in a reef tank right now and I will get it as soon as he sells the fish. It has corraline algae build up all over it. My question is if I put it in a tank with regular flourescent lighting will it disappear? Here is a pic.
How much lighting, how new are the bulbs? Flourescent bulbs lose a lot of their effectiveness after about 6 months.
Either way, under normal flourescents the coraline may not die, but I can pretty much guarantee it won't look like that. It took me quite a bit of PC lighting over my 20 long to get coraline like that. You also have to keep up with your calcium. That much coraline will eat up quite a bit of calcium.
Either way, under normal flourescents the coraline may not die, but I can pretty much guarantee it won't look like that. It took me quite a bit of PC lighting over my 20 long to get coraline like that. You also have to keep up with your calcium. That much coraline will eat up quite a bit of calcium.
No I was just going to get like 2 or 4 regular flourescent bulbs to put in the hood. I might get the next kind of lighting whichever is cheapest in a year or so.
nope. I might get them later when my tank is established and im making more money. Also I posted this b4 but no one replied. Do you know if you can use UV-B Full Spectrum Bulbs in a tank to act like sunlight? W/ reptiles it works so I was wondering if it works with fish.
