How to reuse an aquarium rock?
- Thread starter fishy_sue
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Clean it with a bleach solution and then rinse it EXTREMELY well. Then put it in a roastind dish and place in a preheated oven of 450F for and hour or two or three...etc. Take a bucket of water and baste the rock. If the water evaporates on contact it should be done....Be carefull of the steam...ouch
I did this when I tore down my mudskipper tank and put the rock into my FW tank. Didn't have any problems...
good luck
I did this when I tore down my mudskipper tank and put the rock into my FW tank. Didn't have any problems...
good luck
echoofformless
Peat Advocate & Defender Of Snails
Wow so extreme.
It's just a rock. A good rinse and hardcore scrubbing in hot water is all I would do. Honestly I can't think of anything that a mere lizard could do to a rock to make it a biohazard so deadly to fish that it needs to be boiled in bleach and kiln fired for a day just to render it "clean."
It's just a rock. A good rinse and hardcore scrubbing in hot water is all I would do. Honestly I can't think of anything that a mere lizard could do to a rock to make it a biohazard so deadly to fish that it needs to be boiled in bleach and kiln fired for a day just to render it "clean."
Wow, that is a lot of stuff you are doing. I would just throw it in some bleach for 15 minutes. That stuff will take care of it, then rinse it off and dry it.
RadleyMiller said:
Bleaching is not a good idea if all your going to do is just rinse.
I would just get yourself a large garbage can from the depot and use it only for your aquarium stuff, place your large rock in there and pour boiling water over it or just take it to the sink and rinse in boiling water. There really shouldn't be anything wrong with the wrong and the boiling water should distroy most bacteria.
I would stay away from most chemical treatments unless you end up soaking in a bleach treatment then spend the next few days soaking it in a high water conditioned water treatment.
Hope that helps.
