Yes there are. From acid, to bleach to RO. I'm not sure of the details yet, but I've got about 150# of very dead, very dirty rock. I'll end up pressure washing, drying, bleaching, drying, pressure washing again, drying, then cure it over a span of months in a Brute (with some bacteria in a bottle, a raw shrimp, a heater and a powerhead).
This is pretty spot on.
That’s fine with me. I don’t need it to be live. I plan on get a hammer and chisel and aquascaping with it before putting it in my tank. If I knew what all the little critters were that I saw on it were, and that they were safe for my tank, I wouldn’t mind. But I 100% know there’s bubble algae and aptasia on it, and I don’t have that in my tank currently. I saw a bunch of little bug like things crawling in and out of the holes. Too big to be copepods. Probably safe, for my tank, but it made me think of what else might be in those holes lol.
10:1 ratio of water to bleach in a brute trash can worked for me to get rid of pests from a previous break down. You can up the bleach if it’s really bad. Let it soak for a week +. Use prime to neutralize the bleach, wash the rock, then soak with just water and prime in the trash can. Then take it out and let it air dry
