adding LR ?

[danielmanlee]

Good day everyone..


my 72 gal tank is currently 2 months old now and I am planning to add more cure fiji lr into it..
right now I have about 50lb LR and 80lb ls. I do have 4 fishes and some corals in the tank... I am planning to buy the fiji Lr(cured with lots of coraline algea, very colorful) from my LFs which is about 15 min drive from my home...Can I add about 10lb of the LR and will it cause any chemistry change to my tank????
please advise????:confused:

[deklin]

If the rock is fully cured and established at your LFS and it's only a 15 minute drive, it will not create any ammonia spike when added to your tank.

[DetectiveTofu]

I second what deklin says
when I started my 35gallon I added cured live rock (tons of coralline) from someone elses tank, and I saw an ammonia spike. But when I started my 10gal nano, I added coralline covered live rock I got from another established tank, and saw 0 ammo, trites, and trates. but that's just me. maybe something didn't acclimate well in my 35gal.
but it couldn't hurt to test for ammo and all just in case IMO