Hey All-
Newbie here. Recieved a Biocube 32 for christmas and very much looking forward to getting into the hobby.
Question I have-> how long will live rock stay 'live' outside of salt water.
Isssue-> I jumped the gun a bit and bought Live Rock at the LFS today (~16lbs) with my RoDI getting delivered the same day. I told them that I would have the live rock in the tank in ~24-48 hours and if the live rock would last. They gave me a styrofoam cooler and laid some wet newspaper over it the live rock and said it would be fine for that amount of time.
Didn't realize that when you mix your own salt water, the mixing process is ~24 hours which is probably going to put me over the 48 hours or so until the live rock is in the tank.
My current thought is to mix the salt water in an empty tank for 24 hours and then add my live rock and live sand after the water mixes.
WIll the live rock make it with just newspaper? is there anything else I can do to prolong it?
Thanks!
Newbie here. Recieved a Biocube 32 for christmas and very much looking forward to getting into the hobby.
Question I have-> how long will live rock stay 'live' outside of salt water.
Isssue-> I jumped the gun a bit and bought Live Rock at the LFS today (~16lbs) with my RoDI getting delivered the same day. I told them that I would have the live rock in the tank in ~24-48 hours and if the live rock would last. They gave me a styrofoam cooler and laid some wet newspaper over it the live rock and said it would be fine for that amount of time.
Didn't realize that when you mix your own salt water, the mixing process is ~24 hours which is probably going to put me over the 48 hours or so until the live rock is in the tank.
My current thought is to mix the salt water in an empty tank for 24 hours and then add my live rock and live sand after the water mixes.
WIll the live rock make it with just newspaper? is there anything else I can do to prolong it?
Thanks!