Will power wash my rocks after work.
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VacavilleFC3S
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no don't do it, your just gonna blast all the coralline off and pulverize the rock,
Most of the rock I have does not have coraline on it.
But yeah if I did then I would not do it.
I just did a major tank cleaning on my tank and the rocks are the last part that sill have lots of algae on it or dead algae and I just spent money on new filter stuff and I do not want to have the filter filter it out as I want it to last a while longer perhaps until next friday. Would be senseless to clean the rocks in a tank with new filtration in place..... waste of money.
then when back home I'll shake them in some old water that has stuff already settle to the bottom.
No big deal...
Fluval 305
standard sponges
bag of fluval phosphate remover
bag of Carbon
then some of these:
http://www.gardensite.co.uk/upload/media/Aquatics/Indoor/filters/a1470.jpg
And then some buffer pads I chang eout twice a week.
running my skimmer 24/7
And as of yesterday I am running carbon in my phosban reactor.
http://www.aznphotos.com/view.html?f=clean002ungp.jpg
otrlynn
Active member
I'm totally confused here. Is the rock you are trying to clean "live"? Has it been kept in saltwater while you were cleaning your tank? If you have been keeping it in saltwater, there is lots of good bacteria that you want to preserve. If you wash it in fresh water of any kind, you will kill all of that beneficial bacteria. If you have been keeping it submerged in saltwater with some circulation you can swish or even scrub the outside with saltwater while preserving the beneficial bacteria. If it has been sitting out of water and is already "dead" you can wash it with fresh water but definitely not at the carwash. They recycle water and it will most likely have crud and detergent in it.
your confused?? join the club
Toddrtrex
Premium Member
This just seems like a really bad idea to me. You are going to kill most ( if not all ) of the beneficial bacteria that is within the live rock -- plus anything else on it. So you are going to end up with dead base rock. See your tank going through another cycle when you add it back to it.
h--mmm i think your problem with the rock is due to your set up, your living rock and vigarous water movement is all you need as the main biological filter, id strip that canister out except for a bag of carbon and because of your bioload do regular water changes as nitrates from the fish poo and wee is your problem, im dont know what size tank you have as its not listed in your signature but the size of it and your type of lights and time of the lights running would help, i think you are overlaoded and perhaps you may not have enough rock, im interested to know more about your set up, perhaps we could avoid you having to go through this again in another 8 months if you sort out the problem now
