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Sk8r · 11/28/2010, 01:23 PM

With the rock to which a coral is attached---you're right, it could. And your dip is killing things that might be neat hitchhikers. As for your live rock---you add it once at the START of your tank, hoping for neat hitchhikers (I don't believe in 'cooking' rock: what can survive the cycle isn't going to be a parasite, hopefully, because it's been weeks without a fish to nosh on. Which is ANOTHER reason for never using a fish to cycle!) You set up once, ideally for a 4-8 week cycle that will do for any fish parasites in your rock, and then don't go on adding random live rock. It's a trueism that 'parasites travel on what they eat' and they don't hang about on rocks that have no food for them. So by treating your specimen rocks what you lose at least will be things you'll WANT to lose, along with a few you'd regret.

11/28/2010, 01:23 PM	#11
Sk8r RC Mod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 34,628 Blog Entries: 55	With the rock to which a coral is attached---you're right, it could. And your dip is killing things that might be neat hitchhikers. As for your live rock---you add it once at the START of your tank, hoping for neat hitchhikers (I don't believe in 'cooking' rock: what can survive the cycle isn't going to be a parasite, hopefully, because it's been weeks without a fish to nosh on. Which is ANOTHER reason for never using a fish to cycle!) You set up once, ideally for a 4-8 week cycle that will do for any fish parasites in your rock, and then don't go on adding random live rock. It's a trueism that 'parasites travel on what they eat' and they don't hang about on rocks that have no food for them. So by treating your specimen rocks what you lose at least will be things you'll WANT to lose, along with a few you'd regret. __________________ Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%. Last edited by Sk8r; 11/28/2010 at 01:32 PM.