Can Rocks From The Beach Go In Your Tank

[sausagewinkle]

Just curious, I have read else where of people taking rocks from the beach and using them in their tanks.

Does boiling them work??

Need help please

 

[ShinyCard255]

What I have done with rocks I found in the wilderness is I took them home, scrubbed them down with a brush, poured a kettle of boiling water on it (in case it has any bacteria on it to kill it), let it dry and put it in my tank.

I have had no issues since I put them in the tank. Java Moss is also growing on my rocks and they look better than ever!

 

[Malawi MaD]

Yeah I've done this before to get boulders for my tank. Usually boil them and give them a good scrub, Put them in a bucket of your aquarium water to for a couple of days to and test the water to see if there any changes in your parameters Just analyse them a little to make sure there are no obvious metal's or the rock isn't harmful to the fish too.

 

[ripil]

yeah i've used a few large pebbles off the beach. i put them in a pint glass half full of tap safe and filled it up with boiling water. left it two days, then dried it off with a towel and put it in the tank.

 

[sausagewinkle]

thanks
Boiled them over and over again last night, going to try the water in the bucket to test the PH

 

[raptorrex]

thanks
Boiled them over and over again last night, going to try the water in the bucket to test the PH

you are lucky, and a bit daft (no offence)
boiling rocks is potentially very dangerous. quite apart from doing absolutely nothing to help the rocks become safe. you could kill yourself, or someone else.
all it needed was a good scrub in hot water..

I know you had been advised that somebody here has done it. but, cmon?

@Malawi Mad. suggesting such a dangerous practice! please think next time.
incidentally, how will boiling a rock make it safe?
I already know how it can make rocks a bomb.
YOU BOIL THEM.

 

[sausagewinkle]

thanks
Boiled them over and over again last night, going to try the water in the bucket to test the PH

you are lucky, and a bit daft (no offence)
boiling rocks is potentially very dangerous. quite apart from doing absolutely nothing to help the rocks become safe. you could kill yourself, or someone else.
all it needed was a good scrub in hot water..

I know you had been advised that somebody here has done it. but, cmon?

But cmon what?? ??

Explain your theory clearer rather than insulting

 

[StandbySetting]

When rocks form gases become trapped in their inner layers, when you heat gas its density decreases thus occupying more volume, or in this case at a the pressure increases as the volume of space the gas can occupy remains the same. High internal pressures can lead to fractures in the rock, which may result in injury.

 

[ParadiseGuerrero]

you don't need to boil them but poring boiling water over them can be a good idea; there is the potential of being harmful bacteria on rocks and in order to kill them most people pour boiling water over them, there is a limit to temperatures that bacteria can survive at, i can't remember the exact number (I think it's something like ate 50C they start dying but some still survive) but at 100C they should all die

 

[StandbySetting]

It's illegal to take rocks from some places too, check local byelaws.

 

[sausagewinkle]

Maybe so, but saves paying ridiculous prices in the shops

 

[england]

Agreed with Rap, Scrubb with hot water, a few times, i had a tank full of large rocks<pebbles> which came from my local beach, Also used a nice large branch which came of my parents OAK tree, worked a treat after soaking and scraping all the bark from it, Which had came of in a storm,

 

[Louiseness]

Agreed with Rap, Scrubb with hot water, a few times, i had a tank full of large rocks<pebbles> which came from my local beach, Also used a nice large branch which came of my parents OAK tree, worked a treat after soaking and scraping all the bark from it, Which had came of in a storm,

I have smooth beach stones and slate, and I just gave them a wipe off under the hot tap and popped them in. No problems whatsoever.

 

[sausagewinkle]

Thanks every one

 

[ripil]

all the rocks i stole from the beach in my ski mask had a temp warning (not to be cooked and something about not exceeding 1000 kelvin. so i knew i was safe. BOOM