Vinegar with rock bad idea?

tomek77pl

tomek77pl

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Hi guys,



I was bleaching my rocks and somewhere online I read that vinegar removes the bleach smell from my rocks. Without research I dumped 1/2 gal f vinegar into a 25 gal brute where my rock was. The guy at my LFS said I could have low PH problems down the road so I rushed home and dumped all the water out gave my rock a rinse and did the usual steps to get rid of bleach smell. Is this true? I got y water tasted after my rocks have been cycling in a brute and the guy said my PH was little low. What can I do to help or prevent from low PH in my tank that will be up in a month or so?
 
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Can you please guide me to complete steps of bleaching a rock

I recently got a rock from a fellow reefer .. It's been sitting out so how exactly do we bleach that rock and make it aquarium safe again ??

Just dump bleach and water and leave it and take it out leave it and use it??
 
Tom, if you could, do a muriatic acid bath, rinse, and let it chill in some water for a bit. Start the cycle in the brute if you like.

Tin, start your own effin thread or use Google or something..."how to cook live rock". It's been covered many times. Bleach loses its bleachiness after 20 mins or some small timeframe. Just rinse thoroughly or let it sit in rodi for a while to let things leach naturally out of the rock.
 
you probably dropped the ph by adding a bunch of acid (i.e. vinegar)
handy guide to what those numbers mean:
http://www.epa.gov/acidrain/education/site_students/phscale.html

vinegar will break down quickly. I suppose you could introduce a base to balance it, but unless your stoichiometry is lab coat quality you're probably better off just rinsing it a few more times and restarting the cycle. Or just keep it going and keep an eye on it. A salt water change would probably help too.
 
jayjigga said:
Tom, if you could, do a muriatic acid bath, rinse, and let it chill in some water for a bit. Start the cycle in the brute if you like.

Tin, start your own effin thread or use Google or something..."how to cook live rock". It's been covered many times. Bleach loses its bleachiness after 20 mins or some small timeframe. Just rinse thoroughly or let it sit in rodi for a while to let things leach naturally out of the rock.
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I did google it jigga

Too many places describe totally different things, which is why I thought I'd ask some one on here, saw this and jumped

OP, Sorry if I side tracked your thread
 
I didn't mention this before, I did a mutric acid bath, rinsed it/ neutralizer it. Then I bleached for a day with after I still saw sponges on the rock. After that I rinsed 3 times with prime added. Now its in 1.026 water cycling. Do you recommend doing the acid bath again? Or should i just do a water change or dose some ALK?

jayjigga said:
Tom, if you could, do a muriatic acid bath, rinse, and let it chill in some water for a bit. Start the cycle in the brute if you like.

Tin, start your own effin thread or use Google or something..."how to cook live rock". It's been covered many times. Bleach loses its bleachiness after 20 mins or some small timeframe. Just rinse thoroughly or let it sit in rodi for a while to let things leach naturally out of the rock.
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tomek77pl said:
I didn't mention this before, I did a mutric acid bath, rinsed it/ neutralizer it. Then I bleached for a day with after I still saw sponges on the rock. After that I rinsed 3 times with prime added. Now its in 1.026 water cycling. Do you recommend doing the acid bath again? Or should i just do a water change or dose some ALK?
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I would just leave it. The LFS didn't mention a ph number so who knows what a little low actually is. Worst case it would etch the rock until the ph balanced out again.

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jayjigga said:
Tom, if you could, do a muriatic acid bath, rinse, and let it chill in some water for a bit. Start the cycle in the brute if you like.

Tin, start your own effin thread or use Google or something..."how to cook live rock". It's been covered many times. Bleach loses its bleachiness after 20 mins or some small timeframe. Just rinse thoroughly or let it sit in rodi for a while to let things leach naturally out of the rock.
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+1
be careful and wear ppe my buckets overflowed like a volcano but it did a great job
 
Wow, I don't think I'd ever use any rock that had all those chemicals in it. I had a huge algae problem & removed all the rock & put it outside for the winter. Come spring, I used a power setting on the hose & then a brush to get all the rest of the dead stuff off of it. I had a slight algae bloom when restarting the tank & now the tank looks spectacular--not a speck of algae in there!
 
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