Bleach vs Acid
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Matthewbrian316
New member
No problem I bought some more regular stuff to be safe thanks for your help!!
sahin
Ultimate Reefer
Always glad to help out a fellow reefkeeper. :thumbsup:
Matthewbrian316
New member
Rocks Looks Great but I actually screwed some up since I did a longer dip on some of them but no biggy all the good rocks looks great!
Bleach kills everything, but will not remove phosphate or copper bound to the calcium carbonate rock. 
chrisd1009
Lurker
I got out of the hobby 3 years ago... getting back in. I've been soaking my old "dead" rock for 3 weeks in bleach. 4:1 water to bleach, changed every week. I was about to start a week long bath in muriatic acid. Was going to do 4 parts water to 1 part acid. Am I wrong here?
Yes, and it is much faster, but you get dead rock at the end. If there is a phosphate issue, acid may also be needed.
Right. It doesn't take much time to dissolve the outermost layer of rock and that process depletes the acid anyway.
jlinzmaier
Premium Member
^ +1
However, if you're going to use the muriatic acid treatment, the bleach soak is entirely unnecessary IMO. The bleach kills and helps degrade the organic material. When you do a muriatic acid treatment you're dissolving the outer layer of the rock. That means you're dissolving everything the organic debris is attached to. A muriatic acid dip followed by blasting the rock with a powerhead for a few seconds and you're good to go. When you dissolve what the organic debris is attached to it is very easily cleaned from the rock with a few seconds of flushing the rock crevices with a maxijet in a bucket of RO/DI water.
Jeremy
Devil Man
Member
interesting thread. i got out of the hobby quite some years ago and i am getting back into it and using my old rock. i am going to soak in bleach over night and just be happy with that.
outside of using a declorhinator from the pool supply would there be any other way to make sure there is no clorine in the rocks? im going to flush the water out the rocks are in tomorrow and just not sure if a air dry for a few days will be enough or something else?
outside of using a declorhinator from the pool supply would there be any other way to make sure there is no clorine in the rocks? im going to flush the water out the rocks are in tomorrow and just not sure if a air dry for a few days will be enough or something else?
