How to quickly sterilize heater??

[Schulks]

Hello I was transferring a couple fish I am putting through QT into a new QT today but the heater went haywire after I added them to the new tank.
I am just turning the previous heater off and on to maintain temp right now and could use some sleep tonight... lol.

How can I sterilize the heater from the previous tank to use tonight in the new QT? It is a titanium heater with some rubber covers on the ends.
I already ran it through a citric acid bath with a powerhead. It has been drying out now for about 2 hours.

 

[sc50964]

Dish soup or vinegar would do the trick

 

[Schulks]

would vinegar be better than citric acid?

 

[Spare time]

I'd imagine hydrogen peroxide would work.

 

[Schulks]

I'd imagine hydrogen peroxide would work.

Good idea I'll put it through that now.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hello I was transferring a couple fish I am putting through QT into a new QT today but the heater went haywire after I added them to the new tank.
I am just turning the previous heater off and on to maintain temp right now and could use some sleep tonight... lol.

How can I sterilize the heater from the previous tank to use tonight in the new QT? It is a titanium heater with some rubber covers on the ends.
I already ran it through a citric acid bath with a powerhead. It has been drying out now for about 2 hours.

Vinegar or peroxide which is an oxydizer- absolutely no soap which has petroleum distillates in it as well as glycerin

 

[ARGYGANG]

Hello I was transferring a couple fish I am putting through QT into a new QT today but the heater went haywire after I added them to the new tank.
I am just turning the previous heater off and on to maintain temp right now and could use some sleep tonight... lol.

How can I sterilize the heater from the previous tank to use tonight in the new QT? It is a titanium heater with some rubber covers on the ends.
I already ran it through a citric acid bath with a powerhead. It has been drying out now for about 2 hours.

warm water dish soap ( not recommended btw you gotta really make sure u get that soap off and people are gonna come for my neck for saying to use it) dry it off then let it air dry, if you can remove the rubber remove it so it doesnt trap any water from the other qt tank in it.

 

[bradreef]

What about 15 minute bleach 10% bath. Followed by 15 min with decorating. Then dry?

 

[Pistondog]

Wipe down with vinegar or alcohol. Towel dry, put in tank

 

[ARGYGANG]

Wipe down with vinegar or alcohol. Towel dry, put in tank

never done that, i just know its really smart to let it air dry thats the sure way to do it.

 

[Pistondog]

Small amounts of vinegar or alcohol is ok in tank.
Some of us dose a few milliliters of it each day, carbon dosing.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Never use soap. Soaking in peroxide and than washing in freshwater will work, but Neobenedenia fluke eggs are sticky and tough to kill. Bleach solutions (1:20) will kill them, but you need to use bleach with no surfactants in it (tough to find) and then rinse real-time, really well.
Jay

 

[GlassMunky]

Never use soap. Soaking in peroxide and than washing in freshwater will work, but Neobenedenia fluke eggs are sticky and tough to kill. Bleach solutions (1:20) will kill them, but you need to use bleach with no surfactants in it (tough to find) and then rinse real-time, really well.
Jay

What about using something like Hypochlorous acid instead of bleach? they sell 500ppm solution super cheap on amazon and its alot stronger of an oxidizer than bleach without most of the same risks. and never any surfactants.
If its good enough to clean hospitals, it should be good enough for a fish tank.

 

[Schulks]

It is fine if the worms survive because I am doing a couple rounds of prazipro now anyway.
That is convenient!

I just soaked it in h202 for like 10 minutes, rinsed it, dried it, let it sit for another hour drying and then used it.
I also gave it like 20 minutes in citric acid earlier in the night and dried it out for like 2 hours after that too.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

What about using something like Hypochlorous acid instead of bleach? they sell 500ppm solution super cheap on amazon and its alot stronger of an oxidizer than bleach without most of the same risks. and never any surfactants.
If its good enough to clean hospitals, it should be good enough for a fish tank.

IDK - I've never used it. If it is just hypochlorous acid with no soaps, surfactants or scents, it should be o.k., but I'm unsure of the dose.

jay

 

[GlassMunky]

heres the stuff i use.
Amazon product

its a 500ppm solution and the only other thing in it is sodium chloride so you just need a freshwater wipedown afterwords.
Just spray on, let it air dry and then freshwater wipe and done.

This is actually what we recently used to sterilize a freshwater tank that we reset. worked great.