Quickly sanitize (not cure) live rock and tank with bleach?

[rennjidk]

I got a bunch of horrible smelling live rock when I bought a used tank. Everything was covered in all kinds of algae and god knows what else. I piled it up in two 5 gallon buckets, top it off with water (maybe 3.5g) and added a pint of bleach to each. I'm assuming that the bleach will kill any algae and hitch hikers within a matter of minutes. I plan to leave it overnight, then rinse and soak with like 100x prime for another day. Should I be safe from contaminates after that? I'm going to let it dry outside for a few days at the end of the process as well just to be extra careful about the bleach. Also, should I run the tank with bleach inside or just scrub it and rinse?

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

From my understanding the bleach to water ratio should be 1 gallon of bleach to 10 gallons of water.

 

[rennjidk]

From my understanding the bleach to water ratio should be 1 gallon of bleach to 10 gallons of water.

From what I've read, that's to dissolve all organic compounds (ie "cure" the rock). I just want to know if a one day soak in a pint of bleach will kill any hitchhikers.

 

[Reefer Matt Verified Media Partner]

Is this rock going into a new, or established tank?

 

[rennjidk]

Is this rock going into a new, or established tank?

Its going into a new tank, but I'm moving all my livestock and established rock & media over. Just upgrading in size.