Is this ok???
 

My nitrates are still out of whack since doing a huge water change. I did have a coral beauty who probably died but cant find the corpse. Can I pull my live rock out of the water without killing the bacteria to see if I can find the coral beauty??? I was going to pull it out and as soon as I do put in a 5gallon bucket with fresh saltwater.

just move the rock around if all your looking for is a fish

not that simple...I have a huge black spiny urchin and a lot of rock.

as long as it stays in the bucket then you should be fine, just try not to let the rock be out of the system for very long. I had to move my tank across town, had the rock in buckets, and they did perfectly fine

no i will put in all back in ASAP. Hope I find the corpse and hope this is why my nitates are so high!!!

sure your cleanup crew didnt get to it first? is why you cant find it?

yeah i do have about 8 nass snails and about 6 hermits and some turbo snails but like i said i have a lot of rock in the tank and cant see too well in the back due to the rock. Will my bacteria die if I do this?