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12/11/2010, 05:00 PM
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Location: Aurora, CO, USA
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Lace Rock - base rock
My LFS has what they call Lace Rock that they suggest for base rock - they also have some very nice Fancy live rock. To use the Lace rock they suggest boiling it for 5 minutes in RO water. It's nice looking base rock mostly flat pieces with lots of interesting texture. If it was ever in the ocean it was a long long time ago - it may have come from Utah, at least thats what the sales guy said and yes they do use it in their tanks, you can see it.
I have some concerns: 1 - will boiling it for 5 min but sufficent to do what ever needs to be done? 2 - thee is a golden algae growing on the rock - should I be concerned about that? Maybe scraping it off - the guy wasn't sure. The owner wasn't around when I was looking. |
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12/11/2010, 05:39 PM
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Moved On
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the yellow stuff is liken , it is a fungus that grows on it in the ground . most lace rock is taken out of a quarry in UT,CO . first thing i would do is power wash it with water only NO SOAP then you cure it . boiling is waste of time in most cases because it kill anything on it but wont remove it. if it is dry power washing is enough.
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12/11/2010, 06:18 PM
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IMO the boiling with RO/DI water is better than power washing with tap water
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12/11/2010, 07:19 PM
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So, I don't have a power washer - do you think the bowiling will kill the Liken? Will there be other issues if it's not scraped off -
As you can tell, I've had issues with algae before and don't want to feed any more from to much organic stuff.. |
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12/11/2010, 09:40 PM
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So boil it, scrub it, then rinse it.
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