Cleaning live rock

[White Hair]

Sad to say i haven’t kept up with regular maint, what is the best way for thorough clean, with taking out the rock, how long can they be out of water do you need to keep them in salt water while cleaning, best way to clean sand or replace, thanks

 

[Cell]

Another test subject for @brandon429.

 

[White Hair]

Sorry don’t understand

 

[Cell]

Brace yourself.

 

[brandon429]

Deluge / small cup lol love it. I was guilty of this routinely


There have been hot debates over deep tank cleans, we like to collect the works here and make patterns please add yours.

The inside joke is some people don't want you to deep clean, so a debate rages on how to rehab aquariums.


When the tank is taken apart like these show, when rock is out of water, clean off the algae using peroxide too on the algae. The thread shows how to disassemble/ clean and put back without harm.

Your rock can be in the air hours without harm. You can also just mist it with saltwater while working

Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread

If you are reading this thread to cure a tank invasion from a link I sent you, we do not need to identify your type of invasion here we do not need you to test anything at anytime regarding nitrate, phosphate etc Above all, we do not need to see a microscope slide picture of your invasion at...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[White Hair]

Sad to say i haven’t kept up with regular maint, what is the best way for thorough clean, with taking out the rock, how long can they be out of water do you need to keep them in salt water while cleaning, best way to clean sand or replace, thanks

just an opinion from each side of the rock and sand cleaning fraternity, i just need to get started and do i even need to do that is ther a middle ground