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Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I know this sounds silly but how long can live rock sit out of the water without die off. I recently bought my first coral the other day, a frag, and it got viciously eaten by some emerald crabs and some hitchhiker crabs that I got in the tank. Last Night, after i discovered the incident I came to the conclusion that the crabs were the culprits and they had to go. Catching these things were a pain, and I didn't catch all of them, but the process I used was a net (which didnt work well) and actually physically removing all the rock in the tank and pulling the crabs into a quarantined area. The rock ended up in 5 gal buckets and I tried to fill the buckets with some of the tank water, but some of the rock was exposed to the air for a bit of time. So thus I get back to my question, How long can live rock sit out of the water without die off. Should I expect a huge ammonia spike or will everything be all right. The rock that was exposed to the air was maybe exposed for 15 min. Any input would be appreciated