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What's the worst piece of equipment to clean in your tank?Mine's the Koralia power heads.I use a 1/2 inch copper fitting cleaner.works great but dam disgusting:redface:

Return pump was pretty sick last weekend. But my korilias were nasty too. It's a toss up for me.

I'm amazed at the amount of life growing in that kind of flow:biggrin:

I beleive it's Dez I think that can answer that question. A good skimmer that hasn't been cleaned in a while. Hands down

oh yeah! skimmer has my vote!

or a sump that was shut down and not cleaned out for a few months.

What about a running sump. How the heck do you manage to siphon that gunk out? Run a pump backwards some how? That's a nasty job I bet.

Clogged bioPellet reactor..:puke:

"siphon hose"

:P well yeah, but your sump would have to be higher then the bucket right? If its on the floor then what? I'd imagine either suck out the crud bit by bit with a turkey baster or else a small pump in reverse. I dont know how a gravity Fed siphon would work without gravity :lol:

Also yea skimmers are dirty work. Try getting your hands inside a tunze 9002 to clean it lol. Not pretty oh well, at least its a small unit to clean.

Have you ever netted out a dead conch snail?...

Cleaning out dead turbo snails is by far worse than any equipement cleaning , gaging just thinking about the smell.

oh ya that smells \

Big Shopvac works best.

Yup thats what I use. Once a month. Only thing that shop vacs used for.

Speaking of smells,what about the few day old frozen food juice because you got distracted and never put it back in the freezer:biggrin:

Dead snails PERIOD!!! The most horrid thing you will ever smell....

LOL, and to think we like to eat escargot.... or used to....