8 year old LR

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Jason7181

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I bought a reef tank off of a guy and he said the LR has been in the tank for 8+ years. Should I boil it or just go ahead and use it? He had a lot of red bristle worms and when I set up my tank I don't want them or the algae in it.
 
What type of algae? You can remove bristle worms by dipping your rock in a high salinity. I think it is 1.035 - 1.040, if remember correctly. However, bristle worms are good to have. I wouldn't remove all of them.
 
That's some super cured rock. :)
I wouldn't boil it and kill all the beneficial micro organisms in/on it...as far as the algae, try scrubbing it off the rocks, the bristleworms are a good part of the cuc, but if you really want them removed, some fish will prey on them.
 
I believe Margarita snails will get rid of the red turf. GHA can be removed manual, by turbo snails and keeping your water in check.
 
So you think I should just go ahead and use the LR with out doing anything? Right now it is sitting outside in tuperware conatiners with no water.
 
Jason7181 said:
I just want to make sure the tank is clean and I'm not going to have any problems with bad algae or hitch hickers
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New tanks will usually have an algae issue. Dipping in high salinity will run hitch hickers out, and you can select what you want to keep.
 
Don't boil it! I almost died making the mistake of boiling live rock. You can "cook" it which is putting it in a bucket with no light for a month the starve the algea out (with salt water, heater, and power head).
 
So since it has been outside for over 6 hours without water should I bring it in when I wake up and add saltwater to it?
 
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