Live Rock And Tap Water

[Betta5]

Another quick question, im cluttering up the place but need to know quickly.

I recently cycled my fish only tank the old way. With a filter, bio media and that way. I have 25KGs of Ocean rock in there. I run dechlorinated tap water. Everything is running smoothly and I have 2 ocellaris clowns in there ATM.

Would it be a good idea to add 10KGs of Live rock? Would the dechlorinated tap water kill the LR off? Would there be any bad effects to doing this?

I only ask as I can get 10KGs pretty cheap ATM so if its worth it, I may aswell

 

[Harry1996]

well if you cycle it in a bucket first then yes you can. but 35kgs is a lot so i would take out 10kg and then add 10kgs of live rock.
but im unsure on the filter because your live rock will be your filter so i dont know if you can take out your filter and just use the live rock so i dont know but all i know is that the tapwater will not kill the rock.

 

[Betta5]

Thanks for the reply
yeah thats what I was going to do, take out some rock first. Its a shame because I actualy like the scape for once but LR seems nicer.

And that was a question, Do I run the boi filter and the LR at the same time. As 10 KGs of Live rock (plus 6ish KGs of reef bones which I have so mayaswell use) isnt going to filter 30 gallons on its own is it? Ahhh I should have thought about this all before I started the tank up!!! lol

 

[drsquirrel]

Live rock is just dead coral skeletons anyway, which is what I assume your reef bones are

Your LR will be less dense than ocean rock so you will probably find your 10kg of LR takes up more space than 10kg of base rock...

I don't personally see why you can't run the 2 filters together... can you over filter a tank?

LR Info

 

[Betta5]

Ahh thats cool. I can just take as much ocean rock out as I need too and leave it to one side until I upgrade and then just use it then. If I can leave my filter running as is and just add the live rock (after I cure it seperately) that would be perfect, because its so simple lol

yeah the reef bones are just dry LR, I got it from the pet shop and used it on my old tank which I closed down in the end

But yeah, if thats not a problem, I will just add the LR that way

 

[Harry1996]

the live rock will seed the other rocks in the tank

 

[ben1987]

Ocean rock will never become live or seeded. Bin that, if its reef bones then yes it will

 

[Harry1996]

yer ben i did mean the reef bones wait betta5 do you have reef bones in your tank? should of ask that ages ago