Grow Mediums Cleaning dwc airstones?

[Royalroacho]

So my airdisk got some crap in it, i put in some mycos and they slimed it up good. Ive tried cleaning it with a little ph down, vinegar and a shit ton of scrubbing. It didnt really work. Anyone have ideas?

 

[Cerul]

Run air through them while they're soaking in a bleach solution. Then air dry them or dry them under sunlight. The bleach should dissolve all the slime/biofilm and then completely evaporate after a day or so.

 

[Padawan1972]

So my airdisk got some crap in it, i put in some mycos and they slimed it up good. Ive tried cleaning it with a little ph down, vinegar and a shit ton of scrubbing. It didnt really work. Anyone have ideas?

although I do not run DWC...I have several salt and fresh water large airstones...I soak them in Hydrogen peroxide overnight, then boil them for 5 minutes. it cleans all proteins out of it ...they bubble like new

 

[Royalroacho]

although I do not run DWC...I have several salt and fresh water large airstones...I soak them in Hydrogen peroxide overnight, then boil them for 5 minutes. it cleans all proteins out of it ...they bubble like new

Awesome! I thought of peroxide, but dont have any, ill go get some. Wait... I do have some somewhere...I dunno if i should boil it, its a big disk stone that fits in a plastic shell, the airline goes in the shell, fills it with air, and it diffuses up through the disk. Boiling might deform the seals. I wonder if prozym might work.
I also have aquariums, its funny, as i read that im watching a 9" chocolate cichlid lose a mouth wrestling dispute to a 2" ram lol

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[Royalroacho]

Run air through them while they're soaking in a bleach solution. Then air dry them or dry them under sunlight. The bleach should dissolve all the slime/biofilm and then completely evaporate after a day or so.

Ill also try that, writing "BLEACH" on my hand now...

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[Free Flow]

What I do is buy 50 at a time so when they gunk up I just replace them. I get 50 of them for like 20 bucks on ebay. Way easier than messing with cleaning and soaking

 

[Eyes on Fire]

yeah the only solid way I have found to clean good air stones,it a highly active enzyme cleaner. like for industrial carpet cleaning. it eats the gunk but takes time and a few applications sometimes. it works though. well only did it twice.LOL worked for me. but a pack is the way to go Im thinking. cleaning is difficult if they are very used. happy harvesting

 

[Royalroacho]

yeah the only solid way I have found to clean good air stones,it a highly active enzyme cleaner. like for industrial carpet cleaning. it eats the gunk but takes time and a few applications sometimes. it works though. well only did it twice.LOL worked for me. but a pack is the way to go Im thinking. cleaning is difficult if they are very used. happy harvesting

Im using 8" airdisks, they fill the nottom of the bucket, ive found i get better growth with them than the stones. Theyre like 20 bucks, maybe ill buy a pack of airstones if they become irrepairably splooged. Im gonna look for the enzym cleaner if the other stuff doesnt work. I bought a another and had a second dwc going, but the seal broke and it just releases one large bubble...and the pump broke. I fixed the pump and re sealed the disk with aquarium silicone, but it still isnt air tight. Im sealing it again now...i can rotate and clean them. Im seriously thinking of getting a 6 site rdwc going, its the easiest and highest yeilding method ive tried, but i have to find a better quality pump and figure out what i wanna do for stones, i could probly put both of these on a large pump in the res...

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[Henry]

So my airdisk got some crap in it, i put in some mycos and they slimed it up good. Ive tried cleaning it with a little ph down, vinegar and a shit ton of scrubbing. It didnt really work. Anyone have ideas?

Yes, I have some ideas worth consideration.

“That crap” stopping up your air bubblers is actually massive colonies of microorganisms (plants, algae, bacteria, etc.) throughout the inside the pores of your stone. The problem is now only on the surface of the stone, but inside the stone too. The stones are always wet and dark inside the pores and that’s where these organisms thrive and multiply which is normal.

Stones sit in water 24/7, the pores will stop up in short order and reduce or totally occlude the air bubbles and that is a simple fact of life for all bubble stones. Even those high-dollar expensive stones that make micro-bubbles that are so great. Most of you have discovered by now, cleaning those air stones don’t produce a very good outcome causing more aggravation and disappointments when expectations are not met.

Buying new air stones is the best option unless you just like to tinker-around trying to clean those stones and make them work again. Aquarist have the same problems you have with those same air stones. On the up side, air stones are very cheap and also very disposable, buy 15-20 and throw them away when they occlude or you notice a reduction in bubble output. Or just wait until they completely stop and no bubbles come out of the stone, get your money’s-worth out of that $3 stone so to speak.

*Did you know there are other bubbler options far better than those aquarium air stones? Nano-bubble generators DO NOT STOP-UP like aquarium air bubblers.

Nano bubbles are special, they are made with Nano-bubble generators. Nano-bubbles work far better than micro and macro bubbles in reservoir water. They are very efficient and extremely small, smaller than bacteria. Nano-bubble generators are impressive and solve all those dirty little problems associated with air stones like stopping-up when you really need them to work.

When air stones stop up, roots suffocate, die and root rot decomposes roots quickly. Then the fungal outbreak happens and the race is on to kill the fungi, all DWC growers know this exercise very well.

Pores is air stones that occlude and stop bubble are definitely something major to worry about all the time. But you already know that.

 

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I just put mine in the dishwasher , came out just like new, soaked them in vinegar and then 5 minutes in the microwave , rinsed and that's it.