Pump cleaning.

[suboc]

I picked up some Hydor magi-clean to clean my pumps and other items that need coraline algae removal and it worked fantastic. soak for about 20 mins, and they require very little scrubbing. I was wondering if there are any house hold chemicals that would do the same thing, with messing up my pumps. And cheaper than $14 for 3 cleanings.

 

[Wes]

i just use water and white vinegar, the bulk gallon stuff you get from walmart

 

[Guest]

i use white vinegar

 

[suboc]

Ive tryed vinegar before maybe my solution was to diluted.

 

[franklypre]

You can spray hydrogen peroxide on most anything to remove algae of any kind but I typically use vinegar at about 40%.

 

[grawlfang]

white vinegar [smilie=smile.gif]

 

[bettalover]

another +1 on vinegar, 50/50 mix and i leave it soak overnight for better results...

 

[shse666]

The hottest water I can get from the tap plus cheap white vinegar at 50/50 or so. I am much less likely to injure myself with that vs. muriatic acid and you can't beat the price.
I think I have some of the magi-clean from Nextwave that I will try though. Just don't have anything I need to de calcify yet.

 

[jerome817]

I fill up a 5 gallon salt bucket with 5050 vinegar and water and store it in the garage with a lid on. It stores well as long as you keep it tightly sealed.