Need some insight on use of rocks

[WhatCouldGoWrong71]

Last night my 20G tank overheated and so far only a few snails made it through. I have the corals in a bucket, but I am not holding any hope on those.

Ironically I am in the middle of a new tank build and have a lot of wet ocean rock from the gulf arriving on a flight tonight.

1) Do you think the beneficial bacteria on the rock that was in the overheated tank is remotely alive?
2) Since I will have all this new wet rock that I was going to dark cure in the new tank for 4-6 weeks, can I simply mix the rocks from the tank that overheated with the new rock? I am curing over 4-6 weeks with many water changes to remove the ammonia from any die off.

Thoughts?

 

[ptrick21186]

How overheated are we talking? If ANYTHING else survived in your tank then the bacteria survived. I wouldn't worry too much about them

 

[taricha]

1) Do you think the beneficial bacteria on the rock that was in the overheated tank is remotely alive?
2) Since I will have all this new wet rock that I was going to dark cure in the new tank for 4-6 weeks, can I simply mix the rocks from the tank that overheated with the new rock? I am curing over 4-6 weeks with many water changes to remove the ammonia from any die off.

Could a few types have been harmed by high temps? sure. But the much larger portion will make it through.
I think curing them together will result in a lot of bacteria from both your tank and your new live rock persisting.