How to "cook" live rock

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Larry got this off of reef central on how to cook LR....

 
I like this idea and most likely will try it the next time I change tanks. But is seems unpracticle if you already have your tank going and you have corals. By now I have some type of coral on almost every rock on the top layer and none of them would survive this process.

Any recommendations/ideas on this topic?
 
No, it will take eons to leach that back out of the rock. Have you tested for copper to see if there is any in the water that this rock is in?
 
Not yet, I plan on buying one to check it out now that you mentioned it. Thanks!
I don't know that I'll be able to find the gal to get the info.

Cindy
 
is heat back in this process?

I have the tub set up in my office at home right now, and it stinks in here. Will the heat from the garage hurt this process?
 
If you have any cool hitchikers, they won't survive the texas heat, if it gets really hot.. but the bacteria should.
 
i have cooked all my rock in seperate occasions since Dec. things i have noticed are that on rocks with real pretty purple coraline algae that id bleached to white. but as soon as it got back in my tank it purpled up. i had some hitchiker corals do well, and some that did not. i had a rock full of GSP and they melted alittle, but in all i have had zoos and other GSP make it all they way through the cooking process with no light, and when they got light they opened back up. some did lose color, but they are coloring up nice now.
 
I think I'm going to try this. I've had my tank setup for 2.5 years or so. I've recently developed this hair algea issue that keeps growing. My water changes are regular. I use RO/DI, although I started the tank with tap (again over two years ago). It was a fight with algea in the beginning but it eventually went away. Now I have this. I've used that stop algea stuff. I've bought cleaners, a tuxedo, and mowed it all down in a separate tank to encourage the algea eaters to eat the stuff, but nothing is working 100%. Oh I've tried the Phosphate reducers as well.

I've bought a new tank, and I plan on setting it up this summer, but I'm not moving the rock until this algea issue is cleaned up. Hopefully, this cooking process will do the trick.
 
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