Plastic container for live rock

I'm going to pick up some live rock from someone in my area for my 40B however my tank don't be set up until my move so I need somewhere to store it.

What type of container can I use? a simple sterilite container from Walmart? or a plastic garbage can?

should I be looking for a certain type of plastic or what?

thanks

 

I would go with a Brute trash can. They are very sturdy and you will find plenty of uses for it.

 

+1 on the rubbermaid brute. That's what I always use for storage and mixing of water and what not.

 

Thanks for the advice

What I want to do this take the 20lbs of live that I am about to buy and throw my 20lbs of dry base rock in with it to let it seed.

Can I just use tap water and the live rock will still be fine with a skimmer attached. I don't have a ro/di unit and it would almost defeat the purpose of getting this cheap live rock now if I have to keep paying for ro/di for the container I put it in for the 3 months or so before I can set the tank up

 

The tap water will leach phosphate into the rocks and then the rocks will leach it back into the aquarium. Definitely get and RODI unit in a hurry. I wish I had when I started SW fish keeping because I quickly fell in love with reef keeping and my rocks are algae magnets now.