Did I removed bacteria from my rock with FW rinse and toothbrush cleaning?

[marcosnano]

Hello reefers,

I have couple of rocks that are green and slimey from algae and I gave them FW rinse and good cleaning with toothbrush, but now I'm realizing I maybe killed the beneficial bacteria on it?


Thank you!

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

You should be fine. But in the future, use old tank water to rinse the rocks while scrubbing.

 

[marcosnano]

You should be fine. But in the future, use old tank water to rinse the rocks while scrubbing.

I will.

Thank you!

 

[o2manyfish]

You are plenty fine.

The reason we used a coraline based rock for our aquascapes is because of the porasity (sp?) of the rock. The rock is super porous, or full of holes, nooks, crevices.

You are worried about bacteria that populates in the billions on all the surface area of the rock work. Your brush grazes along the top of the rock but doesn't come anywhere near to getting in and scraping off the surface of all the littles pores, fissures, nooks on the surface of the rock.

Using fresh water to rinse it off is not a big deal. You're not storing it in freshwater. It's bacteria, it doesn't explode when fresh water touches it, it doesn't immediately die.

Dave

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

The reason we used a coraline based rock for our aquascapes

Do you mean "carbonate-based"?