Got some more live rock

[Ocellaris]

I got another 40 or so lbs of rock from a guy moving here in town. Also, about 5 gallons of sand. I put that rock and sand in my 72 right now. The rock was out of water for about 15 minutes or so.

My question is, can I cure my rock from my 55 with that rock also? Time is not a factor and my live rock in my 55 has been curing for about 6 weeks and has tons of brown hair algae on it. If I can put both batches in the same tank, then I can get rid of my 55 and make some more room.

[spudbuds]

Shouldn't be a problem to mix them especially if you aren't concerned with time.

- Bill

[ILuvMyGoldBarb]

Agreed, go ahead and mix them, nothing to harm there. The die off from the new rock will only serve to feed the bacteria already present in your existing rock.

[jman]

yup wish i would have done it like this when i first started but wasnt sure back then but nothin's wrong with mixing em' good find on more rock hope you enjoy it!

[oldhead]

Pretty much the way that I was doing it when I needed to add more rock and I didn't run into any problems. You should be good to go.

[Ocellaris]

Thanks everyone. I wasn't too sure, but I wanted to ask just in case. Wow, my 72 is now full of live rock. Once all the debris settles down, I'll post a pic, kind of looks funny with two different batches. There were some straggler snails that came with the live rock I just got.

The water in the 72 is R/O culligan water I mixed up a few days ago. I made 3 trips to walmart with 22 gallons of water each trip.



I'm gong to list my 55 and 10 gallon on craigslist, hopefully I'll get enough to help majorly with buying a MH with all the extra I'm throwing into the mix.


Then that'll leave me down to just two tanks. The 30 gallon I have with the firefish I'm hoping to turn into a sump once I the rock cycles and I can put those two fish in the main tank.

[Ocellaris]

OMG, I feel like a little kid on Christmas. Okay, here's some pics and I'm looking to see at all the goodies I got with my live rock yesterday. I'm uploading the pics now on myspace and I'm going through my books right now to recognize any I can.


Here's what the set up looks like. I just got done putting the magnums in and redoing all the chords under the 72. I should fill it with a little more water, but I've already been on it today for about 6 hrs with tearing down the other two tanks also.



Okay, first off, there's some Zoanthids that look like they are thriving. They are open and spread out. I want to say they are yellow polyps. The most similar ones I see from the books. There's some on the live rock and two heads laying on the sand that look fine too. Should I put them on the rock? Also, there looks to be some Lebrunia danae (I can't find a common name) laying down behind the polyps. They're pretty big, about 6 inches plus long, but they I don't know if they will die or have died. They were out of the water for 15 minutes while I moved the rock. You can only see the base of one, but theres like 4 on the other side of the rock.


I want to say that's a spanish dancer, but I don't know. It looks pretty even though it's pretty small and there's another one that I couldn't get a good picture of.

I think I have a fan worm, but this one is almost completely transparent. I can see through it no problem and couldn't get picked up by the camera. It's pretty small, but I'm going to keep an eye on it.

I also have about 4 snails I know that I running around. Now if these snails are surviving, should I get some hermit crabs or something to start gnawing down the hair algae from my first batch of live rock?

[Ocellaris]

Here's the difference between the two batches of live rock.

[ILuvMyGoldBarb]

Sorry, there is no way that's a Spanish Dancer. :) Even if it was it wouldn't live. Looks more like it could be a Mushroom. Mushrooms are common hitchhikers.

[Ocellaris]

That's what I was thinking. Because it said it's very delicate, but I couldn't find anything else that looked a lot like it.