live rock cleaning how ?

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Hi, I am going to buy a used saltwater tank that has what use to be live rock in it. they left it in water but no air or filtration running. How would I go about cleaning this so it would be safe to add to the new set up? All help and suggestions would help as I have never got rock like this before.
 
i bought 100lbs live rock from craiglist same condition as your, what i did put all into fresh salt water with out circular it about a week than used the toothbrush to clear every rock & put it to my main tank , the rocks were lean & free of pest.
 
Don't know the tank was in an estate sale, the water wasn't stagnet.
Thank you Vinnie and Victor appreciate the feed back.
 
+1 on Vinnie's suggestion.

But if you wanted make sure everything was dead, let the rock dry out, scrub with a stiff brush and cycle it with the rest of the tank. Any hidden pests will be dead and just part of the cycling process.
 
Consider those are death rocks, I will put them all in Vinegar or Muriatic Acid (careful when use this Acid) about few days or a week to make sure no copper, phos or nitr in the rock. You are going to build new system anyway... Good luck...
 
maidia said:
Consider those are death rocks, I will put them all in Vinegar or Muriatic Acid (careful when use this Acid) about few days or a week to make sure no copper, phos or nitr in the rock. You are going to build new system anyway... Good luck...
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+1 on Muriatic acid. I'll definitely be doing that to some dead rock I have. It should take care of any dead remains on the rock, but not necessarily the phosphate. For that, I'll be using Seaklear, which is safe for cycling. It's just LC (lanthanum chloride), but definitely read up more on "cooking live rock" on some of the other reef sites (I'm not about to try to link it...) before you attempt the MA process.
 
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