Marco rocks

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AC2020x

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Hey, I got about 100 LBS of marco rock today from marcorocks.com for my new 125G i'm setting up. I got the dry key largo rock. What would you suggest doing with before it's ready to go into my tank? Or am I good just putting it into my tank?

When I put it in my tank, i'm planning on adding some water from my other tank along with more water and adding live sand. Do you think i'm good to just do that right off the bat?

Or should I wash off the rocks first? Is just with normal water ok?

What would you guys suggest?

Thanks alot!
-AC
 
Dont wash them- they're already pretty clean. If there is anything organic on there it will only help feed your cycle. Water from your other tank is pretty useless, however sand from an established tank will help build your bio filter. If it were me, I would also add a good amount of real live rock. You will want the bacteria, small critters and coraline that is only on healthy LR.
 
i'd at least given em a rinse, get some of the dust from shipping off them, but it's not a big deal

is this a FO tank or are you planning to add some LR later?
 
I would rinse them in clean saltwater before adding to tank no matter what your told you never know what may have landed on the rock during packing, shipping, etc..

mr.reef24
 
exactly some people will try to jump the process faster by adding some live rocks mixed in with the dry rock's to seed them. Which will help but you'll still have a good month or 2 for that to happen.

mr.reef24
 
AC2020x;3408115; said:
any idea of how long these rocks will take to become live and cycle the tank after I add live sand?
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like bacterially live or 'can't tell em apart from bought live rock' live?

mine started ating a biofilter in about 1 month to a month and a half, i started with about a 30-70 live to base ratio, with 'dead' sand.
after about 9 months i couldn't tell what was live and what wasn't (apart from prior knowledge)
 
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