How do I re-clean fish tank that I cleaned with window cleaner?
15 February 2010
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Yeah I know I shouldn't have done it. My tank was so dirty I needed to just start over. I did rinse out the tank almost 10 times and let it cycle for 5 days but after adding new goldfish they all died. What can I use to get any of the window cleaner out of my tank so my fish will live?
I suspect it wasn’t the window cleaner that killed the fish.
When you say cycle for 5 days, what did you actually do?
If you just let the tank sit with the filter running for 5 days, it did nothing for the nitrogen cycle. Then you added goldfish and they died of ammonia poisoning from their own waste.
The vinegar or baking soda cleaning ideas are good, any residue they leave will be harmless to fish, so do that anyway, but have a read of the link below on how to cycle the tank properly. It will take at least 2 weeks, or it can be done by adding just one small fish to begin with.
Ian
Baking soda should do the trick. If you have window cleaner in the filter, you need to cycle it and rinse with lots of fresh water. For the future, a paste of baking soda and water (or salt and water) will clean most of the grunge without leaving toxic residue.
Baking soda and water…scrub the tank well. rinse it til you believe it’s good…then rinse it some more. Replace any media you had in the tank, biowheels and what not. Put fresh water back in it and add something that kills ammonia and chlorine. Prime or Ultimate…something like that….
Wait a few days…get a mystery snail…just 1 is fine…cycle another 3 weeks or so…check your water parameters (don’t forget to feed the snail a couple times a week). Snails are dirty and will biofilter your water and are quite hardy.
Good luck!
Scrub it with really hot water and water conditioner and really scub the silicon in all of the corners. Rinse it out and re-fill the tank with water and conditioner. Let it sit with the filter running for another week.
You could drop some algae tabs in there just to get the algae back in there. Take the water to petsmart for a free water test before you put fish in the tank.
Hope it helps and good luck
Rewash it with warm water and vinagar, let it set overnight. The vinigar will clean it and evaporate, you’ll be good as new as soon as you wake up.
Windex contains ammonia. There are bacteria that consume ammonia, but you have to give those bacteria time to grow. Here is a page that descibres how to remove ammonia from your tank. http://eric.petfish.net/basic.htm You can also buy an ammonia detection kit at the fish/pet store. Good luck! When you reintroduce fish, just do one or two at first.
Vinegar would be good to clean the tank with. Maybe a combination of vinegar and the baking soda.
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