New to planted tank. Start 1ft tank.

[felix_fx2]

Lol marimo.
Soak in coke! Best after that have rockcoke. Hahahahah.
I only felt that the stone he used are not the same colouration.

Likewise he bought from mizuworld, so I do think somewhere might have screwed up. But before he revert maybe take 5 rocks after washing then and post pictures. To clear the doubts.

[marimo]

lol i know its a crazy idea to soak a rock in coke .. But i still did it, i still have the picture.
Vinegar is like 10 % aetic with distill , pH probably 2.4 - 3.4 as read on internet
Coke has 2.8 -4.2 pH , it can errode couple of things. so why not try?

*I serve that rock coke cola to my enemy after that .. hurhur


The photo of seiryu and kurokinryu rocks dry and wet best shown here
so that I do not have to show mine..haha
http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...ght=kurokinryu


As you can observe below, everything that is dry here looks the same, but looks different when its wet.
So should get the rocks all wet to judge ! haha headache

1. As you can see in between the rock texture there is light brown dirt that runs thru everywhere.
That can be remove from the vigorous steel brushing + vinegar soak (1 day)

2. The 'innards' of the rock is really dark grey with white crystal forming.
That when i totally smash the big rocks into pieces.
therefore the rock we purchase have form a layer of lighter crust probably from the weather and negligence over long time
End up having dark and light tone of rocks..
But randomly smashing can achieve some nasty good look shape rocks!

Pic by alvin .. not me

[Neondagger]

Ok. Now that you guys say it. I do find there is alittle problem with the rocks. Why alvin rocks are all about the same tone but I get variety of tones. There is one that is amazing black also. Sorry for late reply. I just came home. I took out my rocks. soak them in warm water. Took Those that are weird and boil it. Now boiling. Will upload some images later.

[shawnc9]

I cannot see it clearly in the pictures but how do you attach the iceprobe chiller to your filter?

[Neondagger]

I changed the tank I going to use. Heard from many people say the iceprobe chiller not useful cause it's tem and in sg weather hot.. now I using 2213 and artica 1/15. But I going dsm till March

[marimo]

hope you will find this helpful
http://www.adana.co.jp/en/products/material/index.php

[Neondagger]

Ok first think first.

Step 1. I need experts help to ID the rocks. Are they seiryu/Kurokinryu. If there is similarity then might be. But if it"s totally different then there's a problem.
Step 2. The brown tint on Some of the Rock look like harden mud. I used metal brush to scrub it, use boiling water to soak it. Use knife to scrap it. Still there is brown tint. The Mizuworld advise me to soak it in bleach solution which I just did. So after a day I can know if the brown tint come off or not. (And if the answer if no. We got a problem cause I dun see people Seiryu/Korukinryu rocks with brown tint.)










If Step 1,2 is correct and brown tint come off. We got no problem.
If Step 1,2 is wrong, we got a huge problem. Totally disappointment then. Should stop patronizing their store for rocks.
If Step 1 Correct. Step 2 (Brown tint don't come off). I going to ask for an refund of the rocks or exchange.
If Step 1 Wrong. Step 2(Brown tint come off). I going to ask for exchange or refund. The fact that they sell as ADA makes me wonder now lol.

[gan_john]

Just wondering aloud....if there are serious questions asked regarding the authenticity of these rock, shouldn't Mizuworld jump in to clarify? I think their reputation is at stake.

[Neondagger]

Just wondering aloud....if there are serious questions asked regarding the authenticity of these rock, shouldn't Mizuworld jump in to clarify? I think their reputation is at stake.

I don't know about mizuworld. But I am sure that the rock are not what it say it is. But mizuworld refund me the money and took the rocks. So I am happy.

[theludicrous]

i believe mizuworld is pretty much like a service that only supply aquarium products, i don't think they really know about fish keeping and all. i recently encountered having received products that weren't what they claimed to be too, but they rectified it too, so it's all good.

[gan_john]

At least their after-sales service is top marks.....good to hear that it all ended well.

[Neondagger]

Ye. My was abit slow I guess because of chinese new year. Busy period but It ended well so alright.

[Twigster]

Wah, I should have checked here before i ordered my Kurokinryu Rocks from Mizuworld. I just received the rocks(also a bit brown, but seems scrapable), one has algae on it.
Will post pictures tomorrow.

[Neondagger]

Bro, this is getting irritating why are they doing the same mistake over and over again. Let me post the picture of what thr Brown tint rocks called. You can find them with named on gc.

[Neondagger]

Does your rocks look like that?

This was my rocks I gotten.
Once bitten twice shy. Why they once bitten never shy.

[felix_fx2]

once again your mobile phone camera is no good... time to change Samsung Galaxy S3..
Btw, i cannot find any google reference for Serkiyi ...

from view of a business, checking every rock and knowing my staff will do check is hard to achieve...
they had good and bad reviews, IMHO don't dwell too long on it as they refunded you.

Very likely, this batch they didn't get good enough ones...

[Neondagger]

Lol I dont really have anything against the company and they give good feedback. I just trying to show the bro here some rock I gotten so if he gotten similiar ones. It is not korukiryu or seiryu rocks. They should change their rocks name. This label I took from gc. So I think quite reliable as they know their stuff

[felix_fx2]

anyway that's over and i hope Twigster also get good responds from them.
when are you posting new pictures for it....
not the CHI tank, the 1 feet...

btw, my birthday is coming too LOL

[Neondagger]

Haha so what you for your birthday haha. I got a spare sponge filter haha.

When my minipelia see green not Brown. Plants and moss like never grow one. I want to buy new lighting liao

[felix_fx2]

i am honored
saw something nice over in GC the CRS tank inlet thing.... really neat..
but my aim didn't achieve... but trip was good, GC also farmer