Air Stone

[BPH]

Because the water in my area is hard, my air stones get bunged up and end up useless or cblocked. I keep buying new ones but is there a way to clean them of the (what I presume is) scale that is clogging them up?

I realise air stones are not a necessity, I just like watching the bubbles and my catfish loves swimming about in them.

 

[Floyds mum]

Leave it to soak in white vingegar? then rinse it well

 

[aly_starh]

Air stones naturally get blocked within 4 months of using them. Is yours quicker?

 

[BPH]

4 months is about right. Will try the white vinegar trick. Hopefully it will work.

Fantastic username "Floyds Mum", love it!!!!

 

[BPH]

A long soak in white vinegar did the job, cheers! Distilled white vinegar has lots of uses around the house it seems!! I put a few ml in the rinse cycle with the bath towels and microfibre towels...they come up SO fluffy and do not smell of the stuff at all! 20-40ml depending on load...off topic I know but my tip for the day

 

[waterdrop]

A long soak in white vinegar did the job, cheers! Distilled white vinegar has lots of uses around the house it seems!! I put a few ml in the rinse cycle with the bath towels and microfibre towels...they come up SO fluffy and do not smell of the stuff at all! 20-40ml depending on load...off topic I know but my tip for the day

Now that's a neat tip! We wash tons of towels because we're all lap swimmers. I've never heard of that use for vinegar! We use it to make homemade "swim ear" solution. You buy one squirt bottle and then refill it with a few ml of glycerin, then a somewhat larger amount of white vinegar, the fill the rest of the bottle with rubbing alcohol (the 70%, not the 90%) and you just squirt a little in each ear for a few seconds after you swim and it keeps you from getting swimmer's ear. WD