Acid Bath Live Rock

[tri4god]

So I got some LR off craigslist. It had a lot of organic matter on it as it was stored in water. I did a 1/10 soak for about 20 minutes in muriatic acid and then neutralized with baking soda. Some rocks are white which I like. The acid is eating away at the rock.

Some rocks still have black on n them, grey, and brown hue's. Does the rock need to be white? I don't want any leeching or organic matter still in the obviously. So..... should the finished product be sparkling white?

 

[davehead86]

So I got some LR off craigslist. It had a lot of organic matter on it as it was stored in water. I did a 1/10 soak for about 20 minutes in muriatic acid and then neutralized with baking soda. Some rocks are white which I like. The acid is eating away at the rock.

Some rocks still have black on n them, grey, and brown hue's. Does the rock need to be white? I don't want any leeching or organic matter still in the obviously. So..... should the finished product be sparkling white?

When I did it the first time I did acid first then bleach for white. It worked but there was still live material and I had to acid wash it twice.

The second time I did this I did the bleach first to kill everything. Pulled rock, washed it, dechlorinated it and then acid washed to make it white. That worked better IMHO.

 

[SFish]

How did u dechlorinated it?

 

[tri4god]

How did u dechlorinated it?

My guess is using Seachem Prime or something of that sort in between with a good wash.

 

[shifty51008]

you could power wash the rocks and see if that finishes up cleaning the rocks before acid washing again.

 

[Mariano986]

white out

 

[davehead86]

My guess is using Seachem Prime or something of that sort in between with a good wash.

Several rounds of Prime. Make sure you cant smell the bleach anymore and then do one more round. My rocks took 4 rinse rounds with Prime. The rocks are now in a tank with no ill affects, and growing algae on them (unfortunately). lol

 

[SFish]

Thanks