citric acid

Hello everyone, I will be moving soon and because of that I am tearing my tank down and selling it. I filled up the 25 gallons of my tank with 1 pound of citric acid powder. All my rock and corals and fish were out obviously. I left water and algae to be killed my the acid. After about 24...

I’m gonna have the vinegar take a seat on the bench for a bit.. Iv been going straight to this for years to clean my stuff… soak 12-24 hours. But every single time I’m disappointed in the vinegars performance. Still end up scrubbing like crazy and to be honest a lot times after 12-24 hours, I...

We’ve upgraded! We went from a 15 gallon and just bought a used WaterBox 90.3 and it has as little bit of build up on the glass, the sump box has a lot more! I wanted to use citric acid, but because it’s so big and heavy, I don’t know how I can rinse it properly so it won’t affect the tank once...

My 65g rodi container just in the past month has started to smell a little funky whenever I go to fill up a bucket of rodi water. Kind of a fishy smell is how I’d describe it. Figure it’s time to empty it out and give it a cleaning. How do you guys clean yours? Take a pressure washer to it...

I am sure someone has posted it somewhere on this forum but I have done a quick search and read a few threads so thought I would post instead. I purchased a used tank and there is some saltwater residue, calcification or haze or something that I cannot remove. I have used the following...

Hi all, I’ve used citric acid to clean the calcium buildup off my equipment multiple times, but I have a few questions. 1. How often do you all use citric acid to clean your equipment? 2. How much citric acid do you use per gallon to create your soaking solution? 3. How long do you soak your...

I understand you can MAKE citric acid by feeding starch to black mold (yummy!). However, I'm confused as I've heard many that use citric acid to clean pumps/power heads say that you can save and reuse your citric acid solution over time. I just pulled mine out of storage and found what looks...

Just picked up some citric acid from Walmart to clean my pumps with. Before I do I just want to make sure it’s ok to use. Is this the right stuff? Not sure about the 2% silicon dioxide in the ingredients