Bleaching Rocks

[riftwater]

My rocks are covered with a red - brown algae and while there's some green on top it's time to clean them up and hope now that my tank water is right I'll get nice algae on them.

I plan on using a 1/10 bleach to water ratio for an hour or 2 (unit the algae floats off). Then a good blasting of each rock followed by soaking them for a day or two with a very heavy dose of stress coat ( get rid of the chlorine).

If anyone has done this I'd love some feedback, better safe than sorry.

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

I have used a good full measuring cup in a utility tub and that did the job. I drained the tub and then filled and placed the rocks back in with a 2-3x dose of SeaChem SAFE over night.

Just smell the rocks, if they dont smell like chlorine, you are good to go. They shouldnt though, even after an hour.

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I have the reddish velvet looking algae on my rocks...the trophs love it and are constantly grazing on it...call me a lunatic but I actually like to look of it

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

Lunatic! LOLOLOL

Just kiddin'

[riftwater]

I think my fish have a better palate than Danny's (g)as they pretty much refuse to eat anything that isn't vibrant green.

[riftwater]

[riftwater]

I'm really happy I did it, came out great.

[ben]

I'm a big fan of the algae so I wouldn't clean any rocks but having said that I don't think it's a good look on ocean rock more for natural fresh water stone.