i may be wrong but im pretty sure they said all orders are shipped in water now. i made the mistake of not curing some dry rock i bought and now im payin the price. Needed more rock anyways so this way it'll seed the rest of the rock and bring some of that ocean awesomeness into the tank as well
Curing is done I believe at their facility and I generally place this type of rock in a container of tank water for a couple of hours to allow and crabs or mantis shrimp as examples to crawl out and get captured before going into display
Then you should be fine. As Vetteguy suggests, I put it into my tank but left it empty of fish and corals for a couple months. I could pull out entire rocks and hit them with hyper salinity to expunge the pests. I found a couple of mantis, gorilla crabs and fireworms which I chucked. Kept the bristleworms, mithrax and pistol shrimps. If done right, the problem with pests is highly over-exaggerated and the benefits of live rock far outweighs any negatives.
I just got in 10 lbs. of live base rock from them last week. The rock was wrapped in wet brown paper and shipped inside of plastic bags. It was not shipped submerged in water.
thats awesome! i like critters like that roaming around. helps add diversity imo.
@JGT I just got nearly 100 pounds shipped in water. My plan was to let the rock sit in the tank without sand for 3-4 weeks without light. This would be to allow the organics to die off. Did you let the organics live on? I’m not where I can take a picture, but can share later. Love working with Phillip at KP.
I’ve had 2 orders from KP in the last 3 months. One order I had shipped UPS was wrapped in wet paper (never had ammonia spikes). The order I just received was shipped completely submerged. Good stuff.
