When cooking/curing rock

[willray]

can you leave to complete it's cycle or is it neccesary to do water changes?

 

[SharkLover]

i've always just had a HOB skimmer going on a brute with a heater and power heads. Didn't do much for water changes except Top off IIRC. But, i'm sure I did it wrong.

 

[afboundguy]

I never did water changes as well and it worked fine for me... I did let the rocks cycle a lot longer than I prob needed to but that was prob more out of need because of my hectic work schedule at the time...

 

[wrassefan]

water change will prob slow down the process....let it finish before any water changes

 

[IPWitan]

when doing this, do you need to use salt water? or will fresh water do the trick too. I have a bunch of oolitic limestone rock (coral rock) sitting in fresh water hoping the water will leach out anything bad that may be in it.