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22-04-2006 00:55 by craig	hiya im into my 2nd week of maturing my tank using uncured rock it is now going green/brown colour when will i start to see any critters i got in it and how long before it goes purple
22-04-2006 01:17 by tommy	rite i c ... erm your nitrites arnt still high are they .. or do u mean to say everything such as AMMONIA nitrate n nitrite are all zero IF NOT u will porbs loose life on the rock
22-04-2006 01:26 by craig	reading aint zero yet lfs said will take a good few weeks to get there but advised me to use uncured rock as i get all the goodies that come with it and not get left in there tanks
22-04-2006 08:06 by dean	i bet it stinks did you scrub all the rocks off ?? and sometimes you get stuff you dont want in your aquarium there are alot of crabs which are venomous if its uncured and good quality it should take around two weeks to cure with some good water changes as for the colour purple that takes a few mnths onwards
22-04-2006 09:57 by billysfc	Yeah I agree with the others, I suspect that it hasn't finished curing yet, smell the rock as it'll stink while there is stuff dying on it. Remember to check the nitrate levels as once the rock has cured, they should start to fall over time. As for critters, just wait and see, over a month or so, you may start to see some little white worms extending their bodys out of the rock and searching for food, also you may see some white threads coming from the rock and seeming to sit in the water, this is the way they feed and when they have caught some food they will withdraw the thread and feed. You may start to see some small calcium tubes forming which could be a small veriety of tube worm, If you see some yellow patches you've got some sponges, plus loads more, in fact you'll probably never stop finding new stuff. The only thing that troubles me a little, is that if you put uncured live rock into a new tank, you'll get loads of die back from the stuff that's died in transit, and then loads of die back from the stuff that can't handle the awful water quality, it would have been good if your dealer could have given you some old filter medium from one of his tanks to help kick start the bacteria process. a couple of years ago, I got a free clavularia from a piece of live rock that appeared after about three months, just one tiny polyp, but over time I had a piece the same size that you see in the shops.
22-04-2006 09:57 by Ed	Give it a bit of time craig dont rush things and when its cured kalk the water use decent lighting and it will start to happen ,the venomous crab thing i doubt it ,i had hundreds of the shore crabs that came off mine no problems.
22-04-2006 11:13 by dean	hi ed how do you no whats in the rock untill it comes out ???
23-04-2006 14:45 by Ed	You do not know dean but it will prob be button polyps to start with and then it could be anything even some certain shrimps patience fella it will all unravell in time
23-04-2006 19:04 by craig	right rock got algae on it have done tests ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate 0 ph was 8.0 now 8-3 have added to tank 1 percula clown and 3 red leg crabs how much clean up crew will i need tank with sump is roughly 70gal tank its self is 38x20x20 thanks for help
23-04-2006 21:03 by dean	lol i know what grows on my rock i have 70kilos of it
23-04-2006 21:33 by craig	just looked close at rock on one piece i have a light green pointy thing growing any ides
24-04-2006 15:09 by drummerduck	grottbags nose?

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