[Solved] Cleaning 1000L Mauser Water Tank: How to Safely Remove Algae Without Damaging Walls

Hello,
Does anyone know how to clean the 1000 liter mauser water tank from algae? What means to dissolve the algae and not the walls?

I would try to personally treat it inside with a high pressure cleaner.
The algae should come off even without the washing liquid.

SKM 1964 wrote:

I would try to personally treat it inside with a high pressure cleaner.
The algae should come off even without the washing liquid.

I don't have a washcloth but it would also be difficult to maneuver inside. I would prefer a chemical solution.

Caustic soda, some kind of bleach, or sodium percarbonate. Everything should be okay.

Piotrek#G wrote:

Caustic soda, some kind of bleach, or sodium percarbonate. Everything should be okay.

What proportions?
Or if I add too much, it will not dissolve this baniak for me?

As for the proportion, look for it on the internet. Probably the safest and hassle-free to get rid of later would be sodium percarbonate. I think 5g / liter of water should do the trick. Preferably hot.

You can pour almost anything into the Mauser. Nothing can move him. Throw in caustic soda, it will wipe out everything organic. A few buckets of water, 0.5 kg of soda and turn the canister.

In smaller plastic tanks, however, I poured the containers like new.

Sodium percarbonate is almost a food solution.
As an OXI preparation, it is used in home brewing for disinfection.
Of course, sodium percarbonate is much cheaper than the aforementioned agent, but there is no guarantee of its proper cleanliness, but if the mauser is clogged, you will not keep drinking water in it.

In fact, all three measures will remove organic pollutants. The question of what the author has at hand. Once I was cleaning an old predom juicer with percarbonate, after a whole night of soaking, the plastics stained from the apples turned snow-white.

@ Piotrek # G

It was enough to put it in the dishwasher because they give it to the tablet .

Yes, I know, but I have the impression that soaking gives you much better results than washing in the dishwasher. In the same way I clean burnt and darkened enamel pots, full water, boil it, add a few teaspoons of percarbonate, leave it overnight and in the morning the pot is like new, without getting tired and scrubbing.

@ Piotrek # G
Let me tell you that as I took the top of the old predom out of the dishwasher, I got it down .

large tanks, including concrete ones, are cleaned with washers and brushes because it is cheaper
small is probably sodium hypochlorite such a yellow liquid very corrosive and generally dangerous
The DT card looks like a little encyclopedia

Theoretically, sodium percarbonate is safe for the environment, water from such a pot goes to the flower beds, so it probably won't hurt them.
How about baking soda? Isn't it safer sometimes?

A colleague tabula_rasa corrected the entry, but so that there was no doubt:
Caustic (caustic) soda or soda lye is NaOH. Strongly corrosive. pH 14. On the other hand, baking soda with a pH of 10.3, i.e. sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3), are two different compounds.

A few chlorine tablets for swimming pools are enough:
https://wszystkodobasenow.pl/tablelki-multifunkcyjne

And which of these agents (chlorine tablets, baking soda, sodium percarbonate) will be the safest?
Because basically the water from the pot goes to vegetables and fruit, washing hands, etc., and you always know that something will get into them, and I don't want to get poisoned.

Are you saying that for food purposes only now?
So no chemicals, only mechanical removal.

You don't risk poisoning. As for vegetables ... Now it's a different matter: Buy an algae remedy in a supermarket. It's such a gel. You can add it to ponds with fish with impunity. So maybe it will work here. For complete safety, it is only occasional washing and rinsing. Or cutting off the flow of light.

Means I do not want to fill 1000l, pour the middle and then water the vegetable with this. Rather, pour in 50 liters, some measure, leave, say, an hour on each side of the tank and pour it out somewhere next to the vegetables. Seemingly, soda percarbonate or weaker baking soda are not harmful to the environment. But are you saying not to give them?
As for this Palmus algae remedy, do you remember what's in it?

123abc123 wrote:

As for this Palmus algae remedy, do you remember what's in it?

Not really. Something from Bros. A quarter for 6000 l of water. But as for vegetables, I will repeat it as my colleague above: caustic soda that will instantly eliminate everything that is organic, it will be easily rinsed out and then it will not hurt anything. neutralize the lye, but the problem will come back to you

As for percarbonate, it is completely safe, when used such as watering the garden or washing your hands, it is enough to empty it after washing it, pour fresh water and you can use it safely. You do not need to rinse anything. Read the brewing forums, there they use sodium percarbonate to disinfect bottles and most often no one rinses them after that.

Diluted 1: 3-4, it destroys all forms of biological life. By creating foam, it shows where the muck was. For the "Mauser" one bottle + 2 buckets of water. Turn over a few times. Very useful (after dilution) in the kitchen and bathroom. After evaporation, nothing remains.

Hello,
gentlemen, maybe a little bit of prudence,
what is sodium percarbonate - probably it is sodium bicarbonate or acidic sodium carbonate, let's be more precise. As for the safe use of a hydrogen carbonate solution for watering, it is suggested to consider what the hydrogen carbonate will turn into after the reaction and what its pH is. It is not "poisonous" but many plants can "move out".
The proposal with hydrocarbon peroxide in such a concentration is a great risk, especially for people who do not quite know what they are dealing with.
"After evaporation, nothing remains." - it is not true that the products of the oxidation reaction do not have to be gaseous.
If for food purposes, avoid chemicals.
greetings

viayner wrote:

The proposal with hydrocarbon peroxide in such a concentration is a great risk, especially for people who do not quite know what they are dealing with.

anchilos wrote:

one bottle + 2 buckets of water

tabula_rasa wrote:

The substance itself is dangerous to tissues

I guess explained.