depends on the duration... but runs a risk of having the LR dying off..
Just wondering if any great damage done to live rock if being rinse (not soak) with freshwater. The reason I rinse with freshwater is to get rid of bristtle worm and unwanted guests. Initially tried soaking live rock into high saline water(up to 1.03-1.04) but doesn't seems to work. After rinising with freshwater, all sort of stuffs came out. Now, is the live rock alright after such treatment ?
depends on the duration... but runs a risk of having the LR dying off..
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kel, how can u tell if live rock is dying? i still see some reddish patches on the live rock. if i continue to run it in tank, would it recover from the damage done?
You won't be able to tell if it's dying until a day or two later, when it smells REAL bad. The coralline algae will almost always survive; it's the loss of biodiversity found on LR that's of importance. When rinsed with fresh water stuff like sponges, soft coral and other small organisms like copepods may die, which really defeats the purpose of getting LR in the first place. I agree that large bristleworms/fireworms may be a nuisance, but for your sandbed to be healthy you'd need small worms in there, which come almost entirely from worms that migrate from LR.
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Hong Yee
one of the ways to tell whether the LR is dying.. is to smell it.. if it is pungent, unlike normal seawater smell, it is dying.. if unsure, separate them from the bulk of the tank coz it can spread.. but if ur tank is matured, u should not have that worries..
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