To acid/bleach wash Pukani to start to cycle dry rock or not to,
I have ordered a 90-gallon tank with 4 – 8 weeks lead time. I wanted to get a head start on cycling the dry rock and maybe skipping some of the ugly stages by start cycling is a 55g barrel. The rock is pukani and from BRS video it’s kind of dirty with phosphate and dead stuff.
I can do an acid/bleach wash and then cycle the rock with bacteria in a bottle with adding ammonia or just do a freshwater rinse and cycle with all the dead stuff on the rock & with bottled bacteria.
I am thinking that I would get more diverse bacteria without the acid/bleach wash.
I have ordered a 90-gallon tank with 4 – 8 weeks lead time. I wanted to get a head start on cycling the dry rock and maybe skipping some of the ugly stages by start cycling is a 55g barrel. The rock is pukani and from BRS video it’s kind of dirty with phosphate and dead stuff.
I can do an acid/bleach wash and then cycle the rock with bacteria in a bottle with adding ammonia or just do a freshwater rinse and cycle with all the dead stuff on the rock & with bottled bacteria.
I am thinking that I would get more diverse bacteria without the acid/bleach wash.