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[Covey]

Not cooking in the oven cooking, rock cooking as in dark curing. Basically you remove it from the tank. Swish it in a bucket to remove as much crap as possibly. Then recure it in the dark for 2 week to 2 months basically until it stops shedding detritus. Basically it kills off all the photo synthetic life in the first week or so. You don't add any food or light so the bacteria in the rock end up scavenging the detritus of the the rock. Burning off all the pent up crud in poorly kept rock. A reset button.

Basically it cost you your coraline but you get very clean biological active rock in the end.

It sounded appealing to me because there is a dozen odd algae species growing on my rock and I did want to target pick herbivore to constantly fight it in the new tank. The LR stays live I just get rid of a bunch of algae and detritus.