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lalleman
11/26/2007, 06:38 PM
Hi there, had to get out of the hobby for about a year, in the military and was deployed. Back now and ready to jump in with both feet and start over. Question is, I have about 200 lbs of rock that I removed from my tank when I broke it down.

Is it still possible to use this same rock and supliment it with a few live pieces to re-cycle and start a new system?
coast2coast7390
11/26/2007, 06:44 PM
just rinse it and soak it in fresh water...there prolly is some pretty bad die off
lalleman
11/26/2007, 06:46 PM
Soak in Di water for about a day , then rinse and repeat for another day should rid all the baddies off of it you think?
kydsexy
11/26/2007, 06:49 PM
rock too old? its pushing a couple million years. it should be fine. i'd say seed it with like 20 lbs of LR so that ur not waiting "forever" the more the merrier of course
bertoni
11/26/2007, 07:02 PM
The soaking probably won't remove all the debris, but that doesn't much matter. The live rock might have adsorbed a lot of phosphate, depending on how the system was doing, but should be okay for the same type of system that was running previously.
lalleman
11/26/2007, 07:07 PM
Well, thanks [profanity], guess I should have been more specific, the point was that it was all ready used and has been sitting in my garage with god knows what living on it and I was looking for a few suggestions on how to reuse it, but your right, guess a million and one isn't gona hurt it now will it? :p
bertoni
11/26/2007, 07:24 PM
Live rock tends to be made of coral skeletons, and given various growth rate estimates, I'd say it's much, much younger than a million years. :)
steven_dean17
11/26/2007, 09:08 PM
Time for a carbon test? Carbon dating is going to be your best bet! BUT ANYWHO>>>>>>that will be some great base rock!!
Radioheadx14
11/26/2007, 10:35 PM
i guess you could give it the treatment like lace rock... scrub it, soak it and test the water that it is soaking in.
coast2coast7390
11/26/2007, 11:22 PM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11261048#post11261048 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by steven_dean17
Time for a carbon test? Carbon dating is going to be your best bet! BUT ANYWHO>>>>>>that will be some great base rock!!

haha wow :eek1:
you just brought me back to my 9th grade bio days...lol:lol: