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[KellyH]

I don't know how good they are, you know that digital thing but here they are. This is live rock that I am curing. If anyone has any suggestions on what kind of steps to follow please don't be shy. Can I put my substrate in now? Oh and Thomas, I will be more than happy to give you a piece of that purple thingy that I got :wink-grin

[Mitchell]

How many peices are in there??? Looks like cool rock !!

Sure you can add the substrate

[theshad]

You said it.. Ther lokos like a lot of rock in the tank. Will there be enough room for any fish to swim?

I would add the substrate now as well.

[KellyH]

Some of the pieces were really neat, there is 39.5lbs in there. 20gallon tank, I just thought that with such small space I should have enough rock so that I can have the most efficient filtration that :dual: I could.

[kadaytar]

I am not sure but that much rock may be too much. According to my short experience you may have the following problems
- After your sand bed etablished, rocks and live sand bed may load organizms into your tank more than enough. All the organisms have organic phospates they die and decompose. Anaerobic environments in live rocks are good places for phospates to hide in and that phospate will be released.
- You may have difficulties for finding enough place to put your corals and enough swiming space for fish
- if you cant provide the proper water current you will have cyano at dead spots. For me its very hard to provide that curent with that much rock

Kadir

[Red-Sea]

KellyH, 39.5 lb of rock is good, rule of thumb is 1.5-2 lb per gallon, I have 310lb in 150G tank & I still can put another 50lb if I can afford it.
The only thing is you have quite large pieces of rock, I would rearrange it to have little more room in the front & sides... :rockon:

[KellyH]

Well I guess that I might have to get rid of one or two pieces, and then break a couple of the big ones in half. I have no place to put the extra if I end up taking any out. Any takers? :rockon:

[Mckitrick]

It's nice looking rock. One of the tricks to curing live rock is to put the substrate in first and the rock will seed the substrate as it cures. Not sure how you're going to do it after the fact. You're going to have a sandstorm regardless so I guess you could just pour it down one of the corners or something.

I think that's too much rock for that tank though Kelly. There's no room for fish. With all that rock you've got maybe 10 gallons of water in there...

Why don't you pick up another cheapie 20Gallon tank and put some of the rock in there? :)
Two tanks are better than one. ;)