Jennybo
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
My hubby just bought a 34 gallon Salana tank and a really good light (I have no idea what kind). He used live sand and has also added dry rock. It has been running for about a week. He ordered premium fuji live rock from the website liveaquaria.com to be overnighted. We received it yesterday. It came in a box wrapped in one wet peice of newspaper. The paper was almost completely dry and the bag it was packaged in was full of some kind of sand flea's or sand flies. I thought it had a funny smell to it but my hubby said it was just because it was from being wet. 2 of the 4 pieces they shipped were about 14" across and completely flat and very black. The website said that if the pieces were to big you could break them with a hammer and chisel. We attempted to do so and it just crumbled into 1/2 inch pieces of soft mush. So we threw it away and are going to cut our losses.
The water is crystal clear and testing is perfect. My questions are, since we took out the live rock, will the dry rock eventually become live rock so we can add coral and maybe some frogspawn?
Also since we were planning on adding the live rock we had removed the bio-balls from the built in filter, since we didn't add the live rock should we add the bio-balls back in or should we leave them out to promote the growth on the dry rock?
Please help!
The water is crystal clear and testing is perfect. My questions are, since we took out the live rock, will the dry rock eventually become live rock so we can add coral and maybe some frogspawn?
Also since we were planning on adding the live rock we had removed the bio-balls from the built in filter, since we didn't add the live rock should we add the bio-balls back in or should we leave them out to promote the growth on the dry rock?
Please help!