Experience cooking Marco rock?

Bruno3047 · 08/30/2008, 01:42 PM

This is my 60G with a rock/foam wall and an aquascape made out of Marco rock rubble. This pic shows the display after filling the tank with natural sea water. The idea was to have the NSW provide an instant bacterial base to start the curing/cooking process:

This is 24 hours later:

The fogginess looks to be a combination of crap that's been dislodged from the Marco rock, and a bacterial bloom. My plan was to leave this water in for a week or so, then do a 100% water change with new NSW. Anyone who feels they have something that might help me figure out what the best course of action here is, please post your ideas either to this thread, or to my build thread, which can be found here:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...readid=1449401

Any and all comments are welcome.

Thanks

jrdoan · 08/30/2008, 01:49 PM

I would do a 50 percent change of water with the seawater you had then just let it sit for the rest of the holiday weekend. Chances are that yes there is alot of well crap from those rocks.(although I like your aquascape alot) Thats really all I can tell you at this point. The thing is about this hobby is that nothing and I mean nothing happens as fast as you think it will. Except Ich and brown jelly which happen twice as fast.

08/30/2008, 01:42 PM	#1
Bruno3047 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,018	Experience cooking Marco rock? This is my 60G with a rock/foam wall and an aquascape made out of Marco rock rubble. This pic shows the display after filling the tank with natural sea water. The idea was to have the NSW provide an instant bacterial base to start the curing/cooking process: This is 24 hours later: The fogginess looks to be a combination of crap that's been dislodged from the Marco rock, and a bacterial bloom. My plan was to leave this water in for a week or so, then do a 100% water change with new NSW. Anyone who feels they have something that might help me figure out what the best course of action here is, please post your ideas either to this thread, or to my build thread, which can be found here: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...readid=1449401 Any and all comments are welcome. Thanks

08/30/2008, 01:49 PM	#2
jrdoan Registered Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Baltimore MD Posts: 68	I would do a 50 percent change of water with the seawater you had then just let it sit for the rest of the holiday weekend. Chances are that yes there is alot of well crap from those rocks.(although I like your aquascape alot) Thats really all I can tell you at this point. The thing is about this hobby is that nothing and I mean nothing happens as fast as you think it will. Except Ich and brown jelly which happen twice as fast.