Question about curing rocks

[jepoy]

So about 3 months ago, I dumped some dead rocks in a bucket with saltwater, heater, and a powerhead. I also added a dead shrimp for bacteria food. Right in between those 3 months we had to move houses and I've kind of neglected the bucket of rocks a little bit. Salinity has gone up once or twice, the heater got unplug once and the temperature went down for a couple of hours, lastly, I haven't really "fed" the bucket anything in quite a while. Is there any chance that the new bacteria in the bucket survived all those mishaps? Is there any way to find out if the bacterias are alive? And yes I did pass the ammonia and nitrite phase of the curing.

 

[jepoy]

I guess "cycling" is the right term for what I did to my rocks.. apologies for the confusion, I always get those two confused.

 

[BAYMAC]

So about 3 months ago, I dumped some dead rocks in a bucket with saltwater, heater, and a powerhead. I also added a dead shrimp for bacteria food. Right in between those 3 months we had to move houses and I've kind of neglected the bucket of rocks a little bit. Salinity has gone up once or twice, the heater got unplug once and the temperature went down for a couple of hours, lastly, I haven't really "fed" the bucket anything in quite a while. Is there any chance that the new bacteria in the bucket survived all those mishaps? Is there any way to find out if the bacterias are alive? And yes I did pass the ammonia and nitrite phase of the curing.

You should be fine.

But you passed ammonia test as there is nothing producing ammonia any more, That shrimp is now hopefully nitrate.

 

[Darkxerox]

You can toss some ammonium or fish food in there then test to see how long it takes to process, should still be fine though to jumpstart.