Silvas Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 Awhile back I bought a used aquarium and a lot of stuff with it, most of which turned out to be broken, expired, or otherwise not usable. Among it were 2 totes of old rock, some of it pretty nasty looking when I got it. Enough to about half fill a 55 gallon plastic food grade barrel. I've got it all soaking in bleach water with a pump for circulation for a few days or maybe a week, before I rinse it all off and soak it in RODI water with dechlorinator. The goal being to see if I can reuse this rock before shelling out a few hundred on new rock for the tank that I want to setup (once I get a few more things, and find a bloody solid wood stand that will fit it) In the pic is a few sample pieces of the various rock I have in there. I'm curious what this rock is - it doesn't look manmade to me, but I'm very inexperienced so I don't know for sure. Can anyone help me figure out what I have here? Something dry mined like marco rock, or is it manmade and just looks like it does due to having previously been used in a tank for years, or is does it look like natural rock pulled from the ocean? I know it probably doesn't matter in the grand scheme of whether I can reuse it or not, I'm just curious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefsakes Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 Nice branch rocks. You selling them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvas Posted June 5, 2021 Author Share Posted June 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Reefsakes said: Nice branch rocks. You selling them? I haven't decided on anything yet, I still have to go through and see what I end up wanting to use in the tank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMeyer Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 Those are the real thing - old coral skeletons, not mined or manmade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvas Posted June 5, 2021 Author Share Posted June 5, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, EMeyer said: Those are the real thing - old coral skeletons, not mined or manmade. Thanks for the info. I'd feel a little better if it was mined, but what's done is done I guess. At least when I got it from the guy who was selling all the stuff, it looked like everything had been in use for a rather long time, most everything I got was very old and well used, so its still better than buying it right off the market from someone pulling it from a reef and selling it Only thing left now is finish soaking it, give the pieces a good scrub (I'm sure some of them will need it badly even with the bleachwater soak), and a few rinse cycles and then decide how much of I really need to keep and use. Edited June 5, 2021 by Silvas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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