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Powerhead Cleaning
my Jebao powerhead has been running for about a year now and its getting coraline algae growing all over it. what is the best method for cleaning the powerhead? how often should i be cleaning it?
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Give it a vinegar bath and let it soak. Then just give it a light scrub with a toothbrush (or something like) and it'll come off easily.
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^ +1... Or Muriatic acid and water, much faster
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Cleaning power heads etc....
After useing vinegar and the vinegar screwing up the internals in my pumps after awhile,I tried this product from hydor called magi-clean.After useing it a couple of times.The stuff works amazingly and you don't have to scrub the stuff off it just disolved.I swear by this stuff it's incredible.I would go on a commercial for this stuff.Loooooooooooooove it.
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I watched this video and looks like Muriatic acid works pretty well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obHZAIgLD7M But is it too strong? I don't want the strong acid to reduce the powerhead's life span. |
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All 3 products mentioned so far are acid based. I'm not sure of any non-acid based product that is as effective. I dilute the Muriatic acid unlike in the video, maybe 10:1 water:acid and leave for a couple hours
Last edited by GoFish; 12-11-2015 at 10:00 PM. |
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10:1 on the acid makes it a bit weaker than vinegar. Muriatic is 33%? ish. Vinegar is 5. Unless you also dilute that
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Yeah I used to dilute the vinegar as well, either being cheap or less wasteful. Pick one
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Vinegar has always worked well for me, it's all I ever clean with especially powerheads.
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Hey! I never "LEFT" the hobby, just doing fresh water now. Which is still listed as part of Canreef if I'm not mistaken. |
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I got a salt bucket I throw in about a L of vinegar and a gal of water run the powerhead for an hour or 2 and it comes off no problem with a toothbrush.
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