Good or Bad - Cleaning LR with a toothbrush

Just a quick question , if anyone can advice - I'm thinking of lightly / superficially cleaning my LR with a soft toothbrush. There is nothing growing on it as of now except coralline. A few pieces I cleaned earlier, showed up with beautiful colors which were hidden under all the useless algae. Let me know please.

 

Go for it! A light scrubbing to remove nuisance algae will not harm anything.

 

I've used a bathtub scrubber brush in the past with no ill effects. I was sure to keep the rock in a bath of salt water while I cleaned. It cuts down on the mess. I did it during a water change, so I had lots of tank water for this purpose, that got thrown out after use.

One thing, if you're going to use a toothbrush, just don't use whitening toothpaste, it will bleach out the coralline! ;D;D

 

I love the advice on the toothpaste buddy! I'd never have known! ANd yeah, I'm planning the same...prior to water change...wash with water which is going to be thrown out of the tank.

 

Nothing wrong with a brush, as long as its a new and clean one. Keep us posted.

 

I use a toothbrush as well for cleaning purposes like my teeth! hhhahahaha
I use the toothbrush to clean my teeth after I finish cleaning the tank with it!!!!
NOT, just joshin'Toothbrush works great for reef tanks and cleaning, especially hard to reach areas.

 

scrubbing LR

Nope won't hurt a darn thing,if there's no corals attached.My wife..bless her heart..once sat and scrubbed a 100 lbs.of LR with a toothbrush.We had a bad outbreak of hair algae and tore the tank down,it turned out great.

 

Ive done it before and will do it again . No Probs

 

I've used a toothbrush....