Cleaning?

What do you guys use to clean equipment that lives in the tank? Like power heads and other stuff. And after cleaning how do you know its reef safe. Thanks in advance

 

i use a kitchen dish brush to clean most of my equipment, with vinegar, and hot water in the kitchen sink...

fill up one side of the sink with lots of hot water and vinegar, then let everything that will fit in the sink soak for an hour or so, then take that dish brush and scrub everything down..

after that i wash everything off really good with hot water and then let it dry for a sec before i put it back in..

i clean my skimmer with that same dish brush, it came in a pack of two for 1$ at walmart

 

White vinegar diluted with RO/DI water and a dedicated tooth brush.

Rinse in RO/DI and it's safe.

 

White vinegar Thanks

 

White vinegar, brushes and little elbow grease and a lot of water to rinse the vinegar away when done.

 

Straight distilled white vinegar, no dilution. Soak the parts for a few hours, brush them off, rise with palin water and you are done.
I reuse the vinegar after straining the big chunks out with a paint filter or paper towel and place it back in the gallon jug. It lasts for a year or more before th pH is no longer effective at removing deposits and I pour it down the drain. Its less than $2 a gallon at the grocery.
Since vinegar can actually be added to a reef you don't even have to worry about rinsing if you don't want to.