Dry or Live Rock?

Neo Jeo · Jan 22, 2018

Here’s is a pic of growth on my dry rock. It’s a light brown, little spots popping up. I’m using 7000k bulbs right now on the rocks as it’s just in a bucket. I also put a pic of my rocks during a water change. :)

Neo Jeo · Jan 25, 2018

Today it’s been about 2 weeks. I’m getting specs of red and some bright green! Maybe it will be many different colors. I’m using the new stuff called purple helix

Neo Jeo · Jan 30, 2018

Been gettting my dry rock ready for my tank it’s been in water for over a month I added some Coralline algae in a bottle some purple some red lotta green . I wanted mostly purple maybe changing of lights and atmosphere will make the purple come out versus the green I’m hoping . I’m doing a build thread tomorrow and I’ll keep everyone updated .

George Villasenor · Jan 30, 2018

Dry rock's the best, no pesky pests, and you can start the process with Dr.Tims :)

Neo Jeo · Feb 1, 2018

Well I hit a big snag....... now I remember this salt water hobby like I did before :(

So my big tub somehow sprung a leak. I have no clue how or where. There was water all in my carpet but at least it was not running out to my main area. I had it where I could remove the carpet to dry. Anyways...

I had to transfer some rock over to a brute 25g can and the water my other brute 44g had only fresh water in it. I heated and added salt as fast as I could. I thought I had the salt measurements right but no. The salt level was around .5 not 1.25 super low for the past 8hrs. My question is , is my rock that I just spent growing live bacteria and coralline algae dead? Least the other bucket of rock should be fine...

O! My tank will be up and ready in 4 days.... the tub had to leak 4 days before that?! Common. I had it running for over a month now.

lapin · Feb 1, 2018

Your bacteria is fine. It is deep in the rock and even a few hours out of water would not effect it much. The bacteria will grow in both fresh and salt water.
Not the best way to do a water change to get rid of those pesky nitrates:)))))
Get some fans on and under that carpet.