cleaning equipment

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...

Hi, all, Several months ago, I set up an experiment to deal with elevated nutrients in DT, added an HOB filled with chaeto and a light. The experiment doesn’t seem to have worked; phosphates still ungodly high but stable and as a bonus, I found the algae had been home to aiptasia (yay). I...

This orange Algae started growing and sprouting and bubbling all over my sand and now it’s almost everywhere. My protein skimmer it picking it up and starting to fill with the nice orange gunk. What is it and how do I clean/treat it. Also on this same subject what is the best tool out there...

Hello all. I have been keeping my reef tank for about 5 months now. I do not have room in my house to mix my own water so I purchased (4x) five gallon jugs to do weekly water changes. I have been purchasing water from my LFS but after 5 months of using these clear jugs they have gotten...

Not sure if this is a good place to post this(sorry if it should have been somewhere else) I’ve been slacking the last few weeks on cleaning the glass on my son’s tank. Now the magnet by itself isn’t cutting it. Would the scraper attachment help? I’ve never used a scraper before. Look at the...

I have the opportunity to pick up a used 1/2 hp grow cold chiller for next to nothing. It's it worth picking up? Edgar reccomendations to clean it?

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...

How to use bleach solution to eradicate Ich Tomont's inside a chiller? I have run a 10% bleach solution through it and then run fresh tap water through it for 3 hours, but am unsure if this will be enough to fully detoxify the chiller before installing it on my display tank. I don't think air...

Hey everyone, I have coralline algae growing on my front glass. I know that’s a good thing because my tank is mature and healthy but it’s also annoying because it’s so difficult to remove. My question is what would be the most effective way of removing it without an expensive blade or scraper...

i got myself a 60G cube tank and its pretty darn dirty i want to fully reset the tank cleaned to basically newish condition along with the sump and all equipment whats the best way to do vinegar? some type of chemicals? also have 80 pounds of rock that need to be fully cleaned is there a way...

I have to clean my used skimmer, reactors, pumps & powerheads to prepare for a new tank. I have read improper soaks of vinegar/water can lead to power head magnet coating damage or pump damage (where pumps become much noisier). I realize that the RATIO is important and proper length of soak...