Will muriatic acid destroy a Jebao return pump?

JCOLE · Mar 25, 2024

I'm bleaching and acid-washing my rocks right now. While washing the rocks, I use a small 3500 Jebao return pump to keep the water in the brute can moving. The bleach washing method is excellent, but I was curious about the muriatic acid. Over the weekend, I gave the rocks an acid wash, and while it did the trick, I think the mixture could have been improved. I'm using 15–20 gallons of water with one gallon of acid. I'll run the solution for twenty to thirty minutes.

Is this solution strong enough to damage the pump or the magnet inside the pump so that it leaks something into the water?

Randy Holmes-Farley · Mar 25, 2024

JCOLE said:
I'm bleaching and acid-washing my rocks right now. While washing the rocks, I use a small 3500 Jebao return pump to keep the water in the brute can moving. The bleach washing method is excellent, but I was curious about the muriatic acid. Over the weekend, I gave the rocks an acid wash, and while it did the trick, I think the mixture could have been improved. I'm using 15–20 gallons of water with one gallon of acid. I'll run the solution for twenty to thirty minutes.

Is this solution strong enough to damage the pump or the magnet inside the pump so that it leaks something into the water?

I don’t think that concentration for that time is a concern.