Is my liverock dead. what is best to do

Ok bleach, I dont know how to do that. What are the advantages and disadvantages with that

 

Bleach? how do i do that and what are the ads and dis ads

 

The reason for bleaching is that it will basically kill any and ALL life on the rock. It will also disintegrate solids and anything thats not calcareous. The only downside to bleaching is that it cleans your rock.....completely white. So until coralline and algae start to propagate on the rock, its going to be white, bleach white.

The process is simple. Soak the rock a 50/50 solution of bleach and water for 3 days. Rinse in RO, soak in RO for another 3 days. Dry out in the sun completely (very important to dry completely). You could even lay them out and blow a fan across then for a couple days. Then once they are dry, soak in saltwater for 3 days, then pop em in the tank.

 

right, like i said im new so go easy but how will the LR filter the water if everything is dead

 

It will become live over time. Bleaching is not your only option. If you would rather keep your rocks natural colored, just cycle the tank with them. You just made it seem like the rocks were disgustingly dead with worms dangling from them. If that is truly the case, I would bleach them. If your description was a slight over exaggeration, then cycle the rocks in the tank after rinsing all of the debris off of them. Pop them in the tank with high flow and a heater. If they are very dirty, do a couple of small water changes during the cycling. Considering there is obvious death and all living stuff is probably dead in the rock, it will need to fully cycle which will take around a month. During that time, take a powerhead and spray the crap out of all the nooks and crannies.

If you bleach, you will still need to cycle your tank, but it will disintegrate all decayed matter instead of you blowing it out of the rocks.

 

Right, This is what I did yesterday. I had the tank completely empty. I had put new RO water in and got salt levels and temp right. I got my LR and filled 2 large buckets with salt water. The LR had quite a lot of algae on it so i got a brush and lightly scrubbed the algae off and most of the dead worms and stuff. I then rinsed the LR in both buckets of water to remove any dead stuff (there was still some dead worms and stuff in the holes) Then I placed it in the tank without and sand in.

That was yesterday. So now I thinkm I need to leave the lights off and keep testing for the ammonia, nitrates and nitries. Do I need to do water changes to bring these down and what percentage shall I change. when they come down am I ready to put fish in slowly. I have bought a new tank and I am getting a sump made for it so I am not in any hurry for the tank to cycle so if I need to leave it a long time thats fine.

Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions.

 

Let the tank chill for a while. All of that dead stuff in there needs to break down a little. Get your salinity and temperature right. Then I would take a turkey baster and blast all of the crevices daily to try to get some of that stuff out of the rocks. If you have a hob filter or a canister filter, it would help suck some of the crap up. I would start testing 2 weeks. After the ammonia starts to break down, toss some clean up crew in there to eat the decayed.

 

once again thank ill see what happens