Suggestion on cleaning powerheads
 

I read that people use vinegar to soak their powerheads to clean off the algae, etc. Here I have been scrubbing, scraping and cussing about doing it for years!
Questions: do you use vinegar full strength? Do you just put the whole PH into a bucket and just let it soak (how long, approx??)? Do you need a new bucket of vinegar for every PH or can it be used over and over again? And of course rinse everything thoroughly afterwards.
Thanks. Finally, an easier(?) way of cleaning PHs.

About 1 C vinegar per 1G hot water. Let soak for a few hours, scrub, repeat if necessary. I actually let the PH run while in the bucket. You can re-use the vinegar quite a bit but it does eventually weaken.

5 gal bucket, A old salt bucket works awesome 1 gal vinigar, 3 or 4 gal water. Let PH run over night. Seal bucket and it can be re used over and over and over.

what I do is 1 cup vinegar to 1 gallon water I use double that in a 5g salt bucket and run the power heads in it over night they come out looking like new on scrubbing at all. I have been doing it this way for as long as I can remember even for FW stuff. as stated by banditpowdercoat you can seal it and reuse it.

Bill

100% vinegar soak.

Just pour it back into the jug afterwards using a brine shrimp net to filter out the crap. I use it several times over with no loss in strength. The vinegar ends up pink at the end of it all because of all the dissolved coralline.

I have an old salt bucket full of pure vinegar and I just reuse it over and over. I put things into soak over night and scrub it in the morning or when I remember works great. :biggrin:

I have a thing about yucky power heads and heaters etc. :wink:

It depends on how much vinegar I have left ! Go pure for faster results but you can dilute it if you like.

Cosco has vinegar for cheap (~$7 for 2 jugs (about 4 litres each jug))

I can't wait to actually see my PH CLEAN again without all that scrubbing and scrapping!! Thanks everyone. Things you learn on this site are amazing. Will be running to costco right away. Thanks everyone.

Good to know !

Thats too much work for me. I let my mexican turbo snails do all that work me :) The snails jump on every week or so and do a "good enough" job for me. I will post a pick of mine when I get home and you can be the judge.