Seeding Old Rock

[Cajun]

Greetings:
A friend gave me about 100lbs of Samoan live rock that has been dried out for over a year while stacked in a pile on his back patio. Most of the rock has very nice shapes and is bleached out pretty white. Can I place this old rock along with couple of powerheads in a large container with new corraline covered live rock and a couple of powerheads to seed the old live rock with corraline? Or just put it all together in the new tank and give it time? Any ideas :?

 

[HClH2OFish]

If it's been sitting on the back patio, I'd definitely run it thru a few water baths to clean out any spiders and other ickies that might be in it.

Other than that, I don't know how 'seeding' it in a separate container w/live rock would really benefit....maybe some critters moving over, but I'd think that'd be about it...

My .02

 

[wade1]

If you use it in conjunction with newer live rock in a tank, it will reseed on its own after a while. Placing it in a bin will work too, it will just take a long time. I have some dried base rock that I started again in my tank and within about 6 months it was hard to tell it from the initial live rock... sponges, etc all over it.

Wade