blackde
04/18/2013, 04:19 PM
Hello everyone,
I recently purchased a used 58g reef ready tank that came with just about everything needed to start the tank up. I'm not planning on running the tank for a couple of months. Also I've been building a 30g sump. With the purchase I also got about 50 + lbs of live rock that was kept in water. I have a few questions about the rock if I may please.
The rock was in a sterilite tote with water from the old tank. The person I got it from slacked towards the end and just used tap water. The rock has some patches of green algae on it. I then used a 30g brute can to make a new saltwater batch. I had a powerhead and air on it for 24 hours. Off and on during that time I mixed about 1 or 2 gallons of the old saltwater into it. I then scrudded the rock with a tooth brush and picked off what algae I could. The only life I saw was about 20 or 30 of these little clear centipeed things that some measure about an inch or 2. I then put rock into brute with another powerhead and air plus a heater. I was planning on doing another water change in about 4 days.
So my questions are should I even bother doing all this and just bleach kill ect all life and reseed. Also my concern is that this rock was in a tank for a couple years and nothing cool will come out of it besides these worm things lol. I know most people seem to just keep lid on the can to kill the algae. Will this not kill the good algae as well? Or should I not worry about growing good algae until it goes in tank. Would it be ok to add creatures that eat algae? Snails ect or just let dark handle it.
Thx
I recently purchased a used 58g reef ready tank that came with just about everything needed to start the tank up. I'm not planning on running the tank for a couple of months. Also I've been building a 30g sump. With the purchase I also got about 50 + lbs of live rock that was kept in water. I have a few questions about the rock if I may please.
The rock was in a sterilite tote with water from the old tank. The person I got it from slacked towards the end and just used tap water. The rock has some patches of green algae on it. I then used a 30g brute can to make a new saltwater batch. I had a powerhead and air on it for 24 hours. Off and on during that time I mixed about 1 or 2 gallons of the old saltwater into it. I then scrudded the rock with a tooth brush and picked off what algae I could. The only life I saw was about 20 or 30 of these little clear centipeed things that some measure about an inch or 2. I then put rock into brute with another powerhead and air plus a heater. I was planning on doing another water change in about 4 days.
So my questions are should I even bother doing all this and just bleach kill ect all life and reseed. Also my concern is that this rock was in a tank for a couple years and nothing cool will come out of it besides these worm things lol. I know most people seem to just keep lid on the can to kill the algae. Will this not kill the good algae as well? Or should I not worry about growing good algae until it goes in tank. Would it be ok to add creatures that eat algae? Snails ect or just let dark handle it.
Thx