I WANTED TO KNOW IF THERE IS ANY WAY THAT YOU CAN LIVEN UP DEAD LIVE ROCK,AND HOW MUCH LIVE ROCK WOULD YOU NEED TO MAKE THE DEAD LIVE ROCK ALIVE AGAIN, I HAVE ABOUT 150LBS OF THE DEAD AND WANTED TO REFRESH IT TO MAKE IT ALIVE AGAIN.CONFUSING ISN'T IT.
liven up dead rock
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1 small piece of live will do it eventually will just take awhile. The more live you get the faster it will happen.
alaica;962273; said:
Simple really. Place the rocks into a separate tank and add in some already thriving live rock from another tank. Supplement with minerals and elements (Calcium, Strontium & Molybdenum, Supp. mixes like Kent Coral Accel or Kent Coral Vite, and Kent Essential Elements). You can also do a 50/50 - by that I mean move most of your "dead" rock into its own tank, move some of your thriving live rock into that tank, and then take the rest of your "dead" rock and place it back into the main tank that the thriving rock came out of. Just swap them around. It wont happen over night, but the better your water, and the more exposure they have to organisms, crusting algae, etc.. the faster you will see improvement.
just add the dead to your main tank and it will seed fine. you don't need to add anything to get it going besides a piece of live rock. if the rock is dead and dry all the way through then it will take up to 1 year to seed regardless of how much Live rock you have around it.