Can I boil rocks

[6lilfish]

Neding to get some turf Algea off my rocks

 

[Vinny Kreyling]

NOT UNLESS YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH !!!
NEVER boil rocks!

 

[tprize]

I have heard lots of horror stories.

 

[ontop27]

Definitely no.. Guy almost killed himself wife and dog

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[brandon429]

its not a great idea because it just comes back later on in the next tank, you need a living tank treatment option. after you try others and they fail, go to nanos forum look up thread on page one called pest algae problem challenge we beat turf all the time.

 

[brandon429]

post your before pics and in seven days there wont be any if you can remove rocks to treat.

 

[keithhays]

The rock had a toxic coral on it that the owner didn't see and the toxins vaporized into the air. I have/had in my old tanks rocks that I would sit outside in the sun for a year...not because I knew about the potential toxin, it was just a lazy way of "baking" off the rocks that I didn't have a plan for.

 

[6lilfish]

I was gonna boil the rocks outside. Heard to use Muratic acid but kinda scared The rocks have been in my yard for Two weeks

 

[keithhays]

I was gonna boil the rocks outside. Heard to use Muratic acid but kinda scared The rocks have been in my yard for Two weeks

You may kill the neighbors...and how would that look.

 

[humaguy]

He kept zoas in his tank...def., do not boil if you have zoas in your tanks....

 

[6lilfish]

well I guess plan B muratic acid

 

[keithhays]

You could probably just soak them in RODI, change out the water until everything is clean.

 

[thebkramer]

A VERY BAD IDEA!!!!

PLEASE READ!!!

Almost killed myself, wife and dog...

 

[keithhays]

...with maybe a very small amount of bleach. I think the kids are using 5% these days.

 

[6lilfish]

Read that story a month ago thats why I was gonna do it outside. Dont see the thead on nanos

 

[brandon429]

nearly any direct treatment option will work. people put kalk on it to kill it all the time

all tanks will get it, some act early on and thats being offered here.

 

[6lilfish]

I cant find your thread I was looking for it. I should have been clearer i'm sorry. the rocks came from a guy that took down his tank. i am upgrading tanks and was gonna use this rock withe the rock from my two tanks. didnt wanna put his turf algea in my tank. Rocks have been on the pool deck for two weeks.

 

[Raceimage]

tuxedo or halloween urchin. You will have no algae in your tank.

 

[brandon429]

we are just real passionate lol everyone has their fav methods


turns out the thread sank to page two popularity...waning...:]
its on page two
and you are saying these rocks have already been baked outside, dried etc? i missed that somehow. boiling isnt needed, i believe it will be dead if truly dried/dessicated

algae dont just make spores when you lift out rocks to dry, mostly it just dies. any other algae that may be there its my opinion you can use any common method. that target will be so compromised already, a fw treatment alone might finish off any remainders. i would use peroxide or bleach if you want to be ultra careful.

 

[6lilfish]

we are just real passionate lol everyone has their fav methods


turns out the thread sank to page two popularity...waning...:]
its on page two
and you are saying these rocks have already been baked outside, dried etc? i missed that somehow. boiling isnt needed, i believe it will be dead if truly dried/dessicated

algae dont just make spores when you lift out rocks to dry, mostly it just dies. any other algae that may be there its my opinion you can use any common method. that target will be so compromised already, a fw treatment alone might finish off any remainders. i would use peroxide or bleach if you want to be ultra careful.

Thank you gonna go look for it.