@Soundline - I'm a germaphobe so I'd finish off the whole rinse-a-rama with a tea kettle full of hot, hot water. Done and DONE.
So what would you recommend? Obviously all rock comes from some place and we out it in our aquariums, suppliers ha e to clean it some how before packaging it and selling it.I disagree. I taught microbiology at USC for 10 years (and have all kinds of other qualifications that I won't bore you with), and your hot teakettle is not going to do anything other than kill maybe 80-90% (at best) of the microflora in the gravel, and the remaining organisms will come roaring back in no time at all. Furthermore, not all of those organisms are 'germs,' as we all depend on biological filtration to keep our tanks healthy. So IMO, this hot teakettle idea is misguided, and a waste of time...
Lol nm.So what would you recommend? Obviously all rock comes from some place and we out it in our aquariums, suppliers ha e to clean it some how before packaging it and selling it.
So what would you recommend? Obviously all rock comes from some place and we out it in our aquariums, suppliers ha e to clean it some how before packaging it and selling it.
I don't think killing 80-90% of what you don't know is there (2nd hand gravel carries all kinds of surprises) is all that bad a pay off.
But I'm no microbiologist either.
Problem is, the reamaining 10% (or even 0.01%) will repopulate the gravel in a matter of hours once water is added, so you're back to where you started. No getting around those 'germs!'