mdel747
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2008
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i was looking at base rock and i had a few questions for SW set up
i have these kind of rock available to me by way of my ditch line
i like the color of them and there porous texture , they have been in my FW tank for 3 months now with no foreseen problem
so question
1- how can i test these for , or if there leaching bad things out of them
2- i only have fw test kit my High ph is 8.0/8.2 low ph is 7.4
dose this tells any thing ?
I am on well water that test'd out 0.00 across the board from the well police when it was tested few years back ,
how i prepared these before they entered the tank was i power washed them off good , i placed them in worm bleach water for a hour , i then soaked them in fw for hour then power washed them again and back in new fw , then soaked in hot water in the sink then to the tank wile it was cycling ,
so is there any reason i cant use these for base rock , if so why
thanks mdel747
i have these kind of rock available to me by way of my ditch line
i like the color of them and there porous texture , they have been in my FW tank for 3 months now with no foreseen problem
so question
1- how can i test these for , or if there leaching bad things out of them
2- i only have fw test kit my High ph is 8.0/8.2 low ph is 7.4
dose this tells any thing ?
I am on well water that test'd out 0.00 across the board from the well police when it was tested few years back ,
how i prepared these before they entered the tank was i power washed them off good , i placed them in worm bleach water for a hour , i then soaked them in fw for hour then power washed them again and back in new fw , then soaked in hot water in the sink then to the tank wile it was cycling ,
so is there any reason i cant use these for base rock , if so why
thanks mdel747