patrice lapointe Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 Hi, i bought Live Rock from aquagiant and got it ship to yellowknife. unfortunatly, they sent it by bus (24h drive) and beacause its weekend, I will only get it on monday. With all this, most of it could be death by now. How do I know witch rocks are still alive and witch are death? thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishBrain Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 (edited) I would think that there would be die off on all of the rock, I would also think that any rock put in will cause some ammonia. I take a brush to my live rock after it has sat for a couple days in a salt mix. That way I can check it out and not brush the spots that have something I want to keep on it. If it is an established tank and you dont want another ammonia spike maybe put the rock in a water mix with heat and light for a couple weeks and that way some of the die off will occur in the bucket, or keep checking levels and wait till it cycles in the bucket before adding it. OH and I do this to rock that only took 15 min to get home. Edited January 6, 2007 by Canadbis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toirtis Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 Hi, i bought Live Rock from aquagiant and got it ship to yellowknife. unfortunatly, they sent it by bus (24h drive) and beacause its weekend, I will only get it on monday. Yes, and those bus trailers are completely unheated and so are Greyhound's warehouses (or just above zero in the warehouse)...chances are it is all frozen solid by now (since I see that it will be making 95% of its trip in -10º to -25º weather). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrice lapointe Posted January 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 thx for your help, it's a new tank so i dont care about amonia pick. is it ok if I let them in the tank for a weak and then brush all what goes off easily? and what do I want to keep? i never had live rock before (first try) so I dont know what to look for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toirtis Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 I doubt much if anything will survive the trip...consider it as good-quality base rock and see if you can get some quality live rock flown in (perhaps a 5 hour trip) in heated cargo and use that to culture this stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrice lapointe Posted January 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 yeah I could use it as base rock. also, the guy at the store told me I would get refund if everything died. that I understain, the way to know if its alive is to clean it and then wait and wait until nothing happen to realised it's dead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murminator Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 One good sniff and you will know -01- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrice lapointe Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 what is it suppose to smell when it's alive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snaggle Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 If it smalls like rotten fish it is all or mostly dead. Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toirtis Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 If it arrives frozen/really cold, it may take an hour or two, but as has been mentioned, dead smells awful, live smells organic and tidal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrice lapointe Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 I can't wait to see this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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