Agreed with Salty due to the ratios stated it's ok to pull if you want to. It's important to rinse off and dislodge any detritus from up under and within the rocks as well before you count on them the be your sole filtration and to be instantly set back up along with fish. Extra detritus stores have the potential to liberate ammonia and other metabolites of degredation when disturbed, our entire sand rinse thread has zero losses but pages of work because we never re assemble a cloudable setup, you'll be able to lift up a rock and shake it roughly in another container of water to get an idea how much clouding, if any, they've retained.
So interestingly it's not the removal of sandbed bacteria to concern about, its reassembling any form of clouding along with reduced surface area you need to plan for. Though your sandbed was extra surface area, this was in excess to what few pounds of live rock can do and as long as the rock has nice flow and clean pores from being cleaned out that's more than enough surface area to handle a bioloading beyond your stated levels. Pls take pics of whatever you wind up applying so we can feature it in work threads
