Cleaning Live Rock in active tank with Pistol Shrimp

[Rexican]

Hi All,

I'm in the process of trying to clean up my neglected algae filled tank. I have a 29 gallon Biocube FOWLR.

My live rock has a lot of algae on them so I'm going to take some of them out when doing a water change and scrub them. I also have a Tiger pistol shrimp and a pink spotted gobby in the tank. I'm worried about burring or crushing either of these two while removing and then placing the live rock. Anyone here have experience with this?

 

[mcgyvr]

Just be careful..
And the BEST thing you can do is use 50% old tank water and 50% hydrogen peroxide and submerge the rocks in it one at a time and scrub with toothbrush or other brush for roughly 10 minutes per rock..

Problem solved...
It will be a green foamy mess but works very..very well to keep it gone vs just brushing alone..

The hydrogen peroxide causes the algae to get over oxidized and kills it very well even what you don't manually remove..

 

[Rexican]

Just be careful..
And the BEST thing you can do is use 50% old tank water and 50% hydrogen peroxide and submerge the rocks in it one at a time and scrub with toothbrush or other brush for roughly 10 minutes per rock..

Problem solved...
It will be a green foamy mess but works very..very well to keep it gone vs just brushing alone..

The hydrogen peroxide causes the algae to get over oxidized and kills it very well even what you don't manually remove..

Thanks for the tip with cleaning the rock. Can they go back in the tank after having the 50/50 old tank water and peroxide?

Also any experience with moving and placing rocks with the Gobby and Pistol shrimp.

 

[mcgyvr]

Thanks for the tip with cleaning the rock. Can they go back in the tank after having the 50/50 old tank water and peroxide?

Also any experience with moving and placing rocks with the Gobby and Pistol shrimp.

Yes I usually just rinse them off or dip them in some "clean saltwater" or even fresh RODI water and right back into the tank they go..
I would recommend only doing a few rocks at a time to avoid killing off all the beneficial bacteria on all the rocks at one time..
I'd do one every day or whatever till the problem is gone..

And yes I've moved rocks with gobies in the tank..
Like I said just be careful and move one rock at a time..
The fish/shrimp will move when they need to.. Just be aware of where they are and you should be fine..