Bleaching Old Rock

[Prowler66gt]

I just finished a 7 day bleach of my old rock from about 8 yrs ago. It has been drained of bleach water as of today. I have no local access to dechlorinator so have some ordered to come in by the end of next week. Question is, should I let it sit without water until then and gas off or go ahead and fill with RODI and then drain and refill with new RODI plus the dechlorinator?

 

[TX_REEF]

I don’t think it should matter either way, the bleach should evaporate. I would give it a soak in new RODI before adding it to the tank for abundance of caution, though.

 

[Tamberav]

I would just air dry it till you get dechlorinator since it will help the bleach gas off until then.

 

[nickng]

Would think that putting it out under the sun will allow the sunlight to breakdown the bleach in a couple of days. Then soak it in some freshwater for a few more days before drying it out. I have done this in the past.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I used ascorbic acid as a dechlorinator, rinsed, and air dried them for an extended period.

Here’s the whole process I used:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/randys-tank-and-learn-thread.1103636/page-27#post-13515653