I always bake/boil. I have a rock that was too big to do either so I boiled water and poured it all over. Everything in my pool is from the yard, chagrin river or lake Erie.
River Rocks in the aquarium
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Pick igneous rocks like granite rather than sedimentary rocks they won't leach and affect your water chemistry
Pick igneous rocks like granite rather than sedimentary rocks they won't leach and affect your water chemistry
im so friggin jealous right now, that tank RULES!!!!
i'm so friggin jealous right now, that pool RULES!!!
How do you heat that thing??????
what details can you give about the set-up? Filtration, what type of pool from where, depth, size, did you elevate it, etc....anything else important I may have missed
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I bleached it for 24 hours probably a ratio of 80%water 20 bleach and then I soaked it in a good amount of dechlorinator for another 24 hours and now I am drying then under a fan BUT I can kind of smell the super smallest amount of what I think is the bleach I could be wrong and be paranoid but would you do the dechorination process again?Hit the nail on the head........Bleach, Boil or white vinegar.
Nothing else will kill everything. For those of you who don't use one of these 3 methods, you're living dangerously.
Oddball - you should Sticky/Pinned this thread you made so we don't get more threads like this
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/ask-first-its-that-simple.672848/
you can, might be a good idea, you used 10% more bleach than you're supposed to.....normally I go 90% water, 10% bleach.
As I stated bleach leaves no residue, so you can rinse and rinse, but the evaporation process to completely rid the odor is just as important.
Go ahead and do another rinse and dechlorinate and let them dry another 24 hours afterwards.
Better safe than sorry
You don't want to JUST take the bleached rocks and soak them in water, you have RINSE w/ a hose foor several minutes before that. THEN you can put them in dechlorinator
