Caribsea rock bleaching?

[joshua1316]

Have a question I recently bought used Carib sea rock from someone’s aquarium. I would love to cure it with bleach for a week but everywhere I see online doesn’t really say if I can. it says regular white rock is fine, but nothing really about artificial rock like this. Anyone have experience with this? I want to kill anything that may be on it, it’s been dry for months.

 

[boacvh]

Sorry for my ignorance, but if it's been dry for months, shouldn't anything to be worried about be dead already and hence no need to bleach? I never have so just curious

 

[Gumbies R Us]

If it has been dry for months, I don't think you have to bleach it. Could be wrong though

 

[joshua1316]

Sorry for my ignorance, but if it's been dry for months, shouldn't anything to be worried about be dead already and hence no need to bleach? I never have so just curious

I’m wanting to kill all the organic matter that’s dead on the rock so when I cycle the new tank I don’t have random stuff breaking down slowly and prolonging the cycle, and just incase for some reason some algie can come back from the dead

 

[Brandont21]

I would think a good rinse would suffice. If you do bleach it, i believe you need to put it in the sun for a couple days

 

[CBonito]

Rinse it off with a hose, put it in water and cycle it.
It's dry rock, don't overthink it. You're going to go through all of the stages of a new tank anyway.

There are likely going to be less organics in "man made" rock than there will be if it was actually real live rock anyway, so you're probably better off already.

 

[reeftivo]

if you're worried about it then i would use 3% household hydrogen peroxide and let it soak for a day, then brush & rinse and let dry in the sun. that will kill anything and you won't have the chlorine residual from bleach.