About live rocks!

[SamuelTan]

Hi,

I just started my nano fish tank still on the cycling process, I'm wondering where can find a good selection of live rocks and how much do they cost?? It seems no one is selling any live rocks around here!

I stay at yew tee btw.

[Guest]

You can find live rocks in many local LFS i.e; Marine Life, Irwanna, Pinnacle, reborn ect.. Price ranges from 6.00 / kgs to 15.00 / kgs depending on the grade / shape and origin.

Or you can also find some good hunt at the pasa malam section at times whenever some reefer decomm their tank.

Welcome and Happy reefing !

[jamesssss]

bro, you can try coral farm or lck also... btw i'm staying at yew tee also... if you going to try on lck area, maybe we can meet up n go together. cos i just restarted my tank n need just one piece nice shape rock..anyway happy reefing..

[SamuelTan]

Harlequin, thanks for the info!!

Alright that's a good idea James! What's your number? Actually I'm thinking of visiting a LFS tmr!

[jamesssss]

oh ok... i pm u my no

[SamuelTan]

Just got my live rock found a few pest like Aiptasia and lice looking insect. What's the best way to purge all of them? Soak in freshwater?

[ReDDeviLs]

if u soak in freshwater ur liverock will become deadrock.

you can use hypo method. either reduce salinity to low level or high level.

[ReDDeviLs]

oh btw, try to get from reefers..cheaper and save the environment. save earth!

[SamuelTan]

Alright thanks! I been looking but no one seems to be selling any live stones here so I went to LFS get one instead since I only need a 2kg rock. So I just adjust the salinity and soak for how long? My rock has been left inside a pain for more than 6hrs dry already =\

[ReDDeviLs]

if it drys out alr. u can put into ur tank since u r still cycling and if there is lr in there alr.

but note that if u put in now ur cycling starts from today due to massive die offs from the lr.

another way will be to "cure" ur liverock.

cycle the lr in another tank or pail.

add tank water in there. run with skimmer as it will stink!

give aeration e.g wavemakers

dose bac sparingly into the pail helps to clean it faster.

[SamuelTan]

Alright! Thanks alot guess I'll go buy bb dose

[Terryz_]

if it drys out alr. u can put into ur tank since u r still cycling and if there is lr in there alr.

but note that if u put in now ur cycling starts from today due to massive die offs from the lr.

another way will be to "cure" ur liverock.

cycle the lr in another tank or pail.

add tank water in there. run with skimmer as it will stink!

give aeration e.g wavemakers

dose bac sparingly into the pail helps to clean it faster.

Cycling period is still the same...

Might as well throw into the tank and dose bacteria into the tank itself?

[SamuelTan]

My tank has been cycling for 1 week today without lr. I put 2 piece of prawn meat inside the tank 3 days ago. I'm just worried that if i put my lr inside and the pest manage to survive after 2-3 weeks of cycling.

[ReDDeviLs]

Ukiya: if u dont have any lr then juz dump the lr into the tank.

terrryz: i suggest that to avoid the terrible smell that will pollute the tank area and also cycling time not exactly the same if he have alr cycled his tank with lr 2 weeks ago and these are supplyment to the tank.. thats what i experience before.

[SamuelTan]

Yea i put it inside already. I think the Aiptasia i saw yesterday is dead. Dried up and become a pile of goo. I maintain the salinity at 25ppt(1.019-1.018) is it low enough?

[ReDDeviLs]

what i mean was to maintain the salinity of the pail of rock if u cycle or cure the rock outside the tank

please maintain 1.024 to 1.025 inside your tank.

[SamuelTan]

Thanks for the advice! I think I'll just put it in my tank cause I don't have extra skimmer to cure the lr. I'll get bacteria drops too. Btw found a tiny common starfish with missing 4 legs lol do I need to do anything to it?

[ReDDeviLs]

how they look like?

an asterina star are pest to zoas.

watch out for them!

[SamuelTan]

Ya that's the one! My water parameters seems ok for livestock already i guess o.o?

pH 8.2

Salinity 1.024

Nitrite 0

Nitrate(Didn't test cause LFS told me it'll surely be 0 if using NitrateMinus)

Ammonia(Using the AmmoniaAlert) 0

Not going to keep any corals anytime soon.

[vt_snowman87]

^ nitrate is the one that you SHOULD test.. it will almost never be zero.. below 20 is good enough..

the cycle goes like this:

ammonia spike

ammonia drops, nitrite spikes

nitrite drops, nitrate spikes

nitrate drops (to below 20) <---- this is the stage where ur cycling is complete and safe for livestocks..

is AmmoniaAlert the paste-on thinggy? i think its not accurate, i advice using more accurate tests such as API or salifert etc..

all the best!

[DUCADOS]

To get good cheap LR here,u need time & luck!

Happy reefing!

[SamuelTan]

Yea totally agree on that. Just a day after I bought my rock from LFS 2 reefers pm me that they have rocks for sale!!