Hey, anyone ever done this?
Toss ice and dechlorinator in the aquarium and apply a blow torch to the outer surface of the aquarium where algae is growing on the inner surface-- i.e.-"cooking" it?
Just for grins I tried it tonight on a small isolated spot of gda. Not enough heat to necessitae ice as the target area was small and the exposure to the flame was minimal. Tomorrow I'll find out what, if anything happens in the way of killing (or not) the unwelcome glass-squatting gda. I can't see how any living thing could be exposed to such extreme heat and survive.
It's tempered glass so I'm not worried about it cracking... But maybe I should be.
I really am curious if anyone else out there has done/is doing this. I mean, it sounds like the perfect redneck joke: "You might be a redneck if you kill algae on your fish tank glass with a blow torch."
Toss ice and dechlorinator in the aquarium and apply a blow torch to the outer surface of the aquarium where algae is growing on the inner surface-- i.e.-"cooking" it?
Just for grins I tried it tonight on a small isolated spot of gda. Not enough heat to necessitae ice as the target area was small and the exposure to the flame was minimal. Tomorrow I'll find out what, if anything happens in the way of killing (or not) the unwelcome glass-squatting gda. I can't see how any living thing could be exposed to such extreme heat and survive.
It's tempered glass so I'm not worried about it cracking... But maybe I should be.
I really am curious if anyone else out there has done/is doing this. I mean, it sounds like the perfect redneck joke: "You might be a redneck if you kill algae on your fish tank glass with a blow torch."
