What not to do!
 

Seems like I alway's have a brain fart every year when it comes to my tank. last year some of you may remember the paint in the tank thing :lol: :rolleyes:

Anyway just a head's up.

I recently made some DIY rock and I put it in the spare bathroom's bathtub to cure it because the water changes would be easy. Well the water change thing was easy but I took the rock out yesterday and there is a thick layer of calcium sandpaper crust on the tub. The same kinda thing that bung's up your inpeller's on pump's and powerheads.

Anyway comet dosent work at all so I emptied a gallon of Vinegar into the tub and kept putting some on the side of the tub. It took a few hours of going back every few minutes and alot of scrubing to get it off but it's done.

Once again, just a heads up :silly:

Almost caused alot of this :agrue: but I got it off and now i'm an :angel:

Buddy of mine cured his in the tank and had a helluva time getting it off the glass

Cheers

For cleaning the tub I woulden't have waisted the time using vinager.. CLR works awsome for stuff like that.

Steve

I figured so but I am too cheep to go buy clr when I had the vinegar allready :lol:

Glad to hear it all worked out for you in the end Jonathan. Where did you get your recipe for the rock, I have been thinking this would be a fun project for the kids plus I need a little more rock.
Talk to you later,
Kelly

CLR is HORRIBLE for the environment! Bad, Bad Steve! :razz:

Oh Oh ... we woke up a tree hugger ROFLMAO ... j/k > christy :smile:

Cheers

Hey kelly,
I kinda just looked on the web and made it up.
1 part cement to 5 to 6 part's oyseter shells and one scoop of sand. once I got made the rock I threw sand all over it so now my rock is white instead of grey.

cheers

While I pry myself off the nearest tree to write this. I find it interesting that we will do all this for our fish tanks yet, nothing for the ones in our part of the ocean :wink:

Excellent .... Thanks Jonathan. Where did you get oyster shells from?

GARF ( who started the whole rage of aquacultured rocks ) also repopulates reefs with corals from their farms ... if you asked anyone on here I am sure they would buy aquacultured corals first before wild collected specimins in a heartbeat. There is a bit of a conservationist attitude in this hobby already but you are right we should hang Steve by his toenails till he swears to never use such a caustic substance again :eek: :lol:

Cheers

Christy, what about CLR is bad? I thought it was mostly EDTA based (or some other chelation agent). Are there caustic subsatances in it?

LOCAL UFA!

Thanks Jonathan!

12-14% hydoxyacetic (glycolic) acid C2H4O3 (CAS 79-14-1); used elsewhere in household cleaners
3-5% sulfamic acid H3NO3S (CAS 5329-14-6); used elsewhere in swimming pool disinfecting and cleaning

3-5% citric acid C6H8O7 (CAS 77-92-9)

2-4% alkyl alcohol ethoxylate-acetate (CAS 68478-93-3)

2-4% proprietary detergent mixture


this is CLR, it is one of the more enviormently friendly cleaner in this class.

so by using it you are being more friendly than some of the other things out there. I can get some stuff from the ship that would have cleaned the tub in 3 min, but at 10 min if you forgot about it the tub might be missing also :eek:

Steve

Yeh I suppose, I was just thinking any cleaner that you have to wear gloves to use must be pretty dastardly to the environment. A friend of mine told me why it was so bad once but I can't remember. I just remember her being horrified that I mentioned it. Personally I have never used it, probably because if she ever found out she would kick my ass :wink:

I know at work we have airplane paint stripper, which is pretty caustic. I don't know if it would work that well on cement though. Acetone is another fairly powerful cleaning agent, we also use it to remove enamel paint.

:lol: :lol:

i used natural rain water to cure it didnt take long at all .
I thought i would let you know :smile: that..