I went to my storage shed to get some old filters and powerheads and could smell the faint smell of gasoline on them when I asked my roommate she said her and a friend found a wasp nest out there and had threw gas on it. So how can I make my stuff safe for use?
Gasoline + aquarium equipment = help!
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The fish store by me does ornament cleaning. They have a giant dish washer and use diluted bleach. You can replecate this at your house, just make sure you wash all the bleach off. Just running it through the dish washer a couple of times with hot water might work as well.
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I've read vinegar is a good cleaner I have my stuff soaking in a mix of hot water and vinegar as we speak and I don't have bleach or a dish washer. Do you think hot water and vinegar will do the trick?
I most likely wouldnt trust the equipment if it were mine and that happened....id hate to watch ,y fish die because of something i coulda prevented.....i think the best solution here would be to get new. Just imo
Put it all in a deep tub of water, gasoline and oil will not mix and instead float to the surface. Run the power heads deep on the bottom as to not disturb the surface to push anything out. When it seems no more gas is bubbling up, carefully pump water in and overflow the tub. The gas will pour off rather quickly.
I knocked a tiki torch into one of my ponds once and this was the method I used with complete success. A friend of mine also had the head taken off his diesel engine and a huge rain storm came through, he did the exact opposite (added oil and drained the water) and the engine runs perfectly fine. Be glad it was gasoline and not something water soluble, then you'd have a danger of killing the fish.
But chances are, any o-rings that came into contact with the gas are finished so you may need to buy new equipment.
I knocked a tiki torch into one of my ponds once and this was the method I used with complete success. A friend of mine also had the head taken off his diesel engine and a huge rain storm came through, he did the exact opposite (added oil and drained the water) and the engine runs perfectly fine. Be glad it was gasoline and not something water soluble, then you'd have a danger of killing the fish.
But chances are, any o-rings that came into contact with the gas are finished so you may need to buy new equipment.