Remove algae from decoration

What you need:

• A dish brush
• A bucket
• Oxygen-based detergent additive
• Crystalline Soda (Household Soda)
• citric acid

How to clean decorations with hot water

1. Roughly shower the insensitive decorative objects of your aquarium with the hard jet of the shower. In this case, you can safely treat decorative stones and bog roots or figures made of meerschaum in this way. More sensitive decorative elements from your Aquaruim can simply be rinsed off with lukewarm water.
2. You can remove algae from decorations made from natural stone or from hard rubber or hard plastic with an oxygen-based detergent additive.
3. Put the objects in a bucket and fill it up with very hot water until your decoration from the aquarium is covered with the water.
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4. Now put a measuring spoon of the detergent additive into the bucket for each liter of water and stir a little.
5.  Leave the decoration of your ornamental fish tank in the solution for 10 minutes. Now remove your decoration from the bucket and rinse the decorative elements thoroughly with plenty of clean water.


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1. To wash Remove the decorative items in your ornamental fish tank with a dish brush under running water.
2. Fill a bucket with enough lukewarm water to cover all of the decorative items in order to remove the algae.
3. Add 1 teaspoon of citric acid and 1 tablespoon of soda to the water per liter of water. Stir the mixture.
4. Leave the aquarium decoration in the solution for thirty minutes.
5. Now take the decorative items out of the water and rinse the decorative items thoroughly with plenty of running water.

Now your decorative elements of the ornamental fish tank shine again in their old splendor and your aquarium is again an eye-catcher without algae.