Vinegar

[jsmall79]

What is the deal with vinegar? I read about a lot of people using it to clean is this true? Is there s special kind of vinegar that one should use?

Thanks for all the feed back!
John

 

[jpkboca]

Regular distilled White Vinegar you find in the grocery store.

 

[IslandCrow]

Vinegar will quickly become your friend in this hobby. It's used for everything from cleaning glass and equipment to reducing PH. I always have a gallon of the cheap stuff from Walmart around.

 

[jsmall79]

Thanks for the good advice I will be adding that to my aresonal..!

 

[jsmall79]

Regular distilled White Vinegar reduces PH. Then baking soda to bring PH up is this correct?

 

[BurntOutReefer]

correct

 

[smalls383]

I take out my pumps about every 6 months.....skimmer and Mag Return....and run them in a 50/50 water vinegar mix for about 24 hours.....this helps break down all the buildup of stuff on the pump shafts and impellars.....works well

If you have a kalk reactor then you would want to run 100% vinegar and its dirt cheap at any store

 

[IslandCrow]

Regular distilled White Vinegar reduces PH. Then baking soda to bring PH up is this correct?

As another arrow in your aquarium quiver, an even better way (in my opinion) of reducing PH is plain carbonated water. The cheaper brands tend to be the best, as they're often times just CO2 and water, which is ideally what you want. The effect is almost instantaneous, and you're not adding acetate to the water. I mainly use the PH reducing effect of vinegar when I make my kalkwasser.