First attempt at bleaching hair

[russell13]

when I was young I would bleach my hair all the time, now I don’t have any hair.

Well I guess I didn’t learn my lesson because I’m going to try and bleach some rock.
I picked up a used tank with some Liverock , the Live Rock still has some green on it and even some bubble algae. Figure it’s best to clean it all and start fresh. Any tips you have would be helpful, this is my first try bleaching Rock and I’m kinda scared. soaking something in bleach and then putting it in my reef tank.
Thanks

 

[russell13]

Here’s what we’re working with

 

[russell13]

Hahaha ha it is supposed to say rock not hair. Any mods who wanna fix that can do so

 

[russell13]

Got the cheap stuff

 

[russell13]

Before the bleach

 

[russell13]

After. Much cloudier than I thought it would be. Not we wait for a week or two and see what happens

 

[Fudsey]

I bleached my rock, letting it sit in the bleach water for a week. Then I dumped it, filled with water and let it sit for another week with 2 changes of the water every couple of days. After the week I let it completely dry in the sun for another week. Once it was completely dry it really had no odor of bleach. I then smashed it all to fist size pieces and cemented it back together into the shape I wanted. This was the end result for 1 side...

 

[Fudsey]

This is what it looks like 1 year later

 

[russell13]

I bleached my rock, letting it sit in the bleach water for a week. Then I dumped it, filled with water and let it sit for another week with 2 changes of the water every couple of days. After the week I let it completely dry in the sun for another week. Once it was completely dry it really had no odor of bleach. I then smashed it all to fist size pieces and cemented it back together into the shape I wanted. This was the end result for 1 side...

Looks great!
I’m also going to use a declorinator to help remove any bleach that was left on the rocks.

 

[Fudsey]

Thank you ! !

I wasn't too worried about using dechlorinator because I let it completely dry out but there's nothing wrong with using it.