Jestersix

Actual live rock at SWA

JVU said:
Curing rock means different things to different people. I would think with wet/damp rock you’d put it in a bucket with saltwater, flow, and a heater for maybe 1-2 weeks to let dead stuff decompose (and let living stuff stay living). Not the more intensive curing process that includes actively killing everything and then letting it reseed for many weeks or months that some people mean by curing.
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This is what I was referring to. Not cooking rock.
 
JVU said:
Curing rock means different things to different people. I would think with wet/damp rock you’d put it in a bucket with saltwater, flow, and a heater for maybe 1-2 weeks to let dead stuff decompose (and let living stuff stay living). Not the more intensive curing process that includes actively killing everything and then letting it reseed for many weeks or months that some people mean by curing.

Though if it’s going into a mature larger tank probably just putting it in is fine since there’s already an active microbiome to process the decomposition.
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Short cures were still weeks long. 60 lb. Boxes of Totoka & Vanuatu rock cost the same as a 5lb order of what's currently available. It always came in damp and smelling like hot butt, but had all sorts of crap on it. Waiting for all of it to die off took forever. My garage would smell like divorce was in the air if I didn't get it in the tank soon.

@gimmito where you at Jim?! If you still got that rock I sold you, you could make a killin!!!! Lol
 
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