Archivarium 2004

[Rigger]

I have a old 20 gal tank just sitting around so I set it up . It has a fluval 303 filter . I want to make it salt water for the sole purpose of starting some live rock on rock I plan on making with cement . I do not plan on putting fish in the tank .

my questions are: do you need to cycle your tank for the rock to grow ?
Do you need fish in there for the growth to spread ?
Thank you

[Waffleman]

Be carful making rock, it needs to be cured in fresh water first until the pH remains stable. The Cement will raise pH well over 10!

Here is a good article that I actually followed for making some of my own rcoks. ( I have been curing them in fresh water for 3 months).

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/6279/RaiseCementRock.html

Very helpful stuff.

HTH
Waffleman

[Rigger]

Thank you for the quick responce !
That web site is where I got the idea from .

[SoS]

That is very nice some of the best Homemade liverosk I've ever seen.

If you need some additional info you can try.

http://www.garf.org/

The Aragocrete they make has also had great results.
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[Rigger]

I have that web site too
But no one answered my questions .

Do I need to cycle my tank befor I put in live rock or does the rock cycle your tamk for you ?

When you have rock in your tank do you need fish in there too ?

Thank you

[Waffleman]

live rock will help you cycle the tank. You do want it in the tank to cycle it.
I assume you know that home made reef rock is not live rock.

No you not need fish when you cycle with live rock.


waffleman