as long as you have a decent cleanup crew cleaning substrate shouldn't be an issue unless there is a disease outbreak, and most LFS cure the live rock before hand so you can just put it right in. and whatever you do, do not clean it off under freshwater that kills all the bacteria on the rock that you got it for, however you may want to lay it out on newspaper to check for bristleworms if you don't want them although the coral banded shrimp will snack on them anyways.. live rock is probably the most valuable thing you can add to a saltwater tank but don't get low quality rock because of price, just buy what you can of good rock and get more when funds become avaliable... your LFS will be able to show you whats good and whats not along with some research on your part!
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