Help with Nuking my tank

[Bleeding]

I have a few questions for those that have decided to destroy all living things in a tank and start from scratch. After battling with disease, killing other peoples fish with my fish, and doing some research, this is what i have left:

1. I am going to use bleach to clean my tank. This is a 55 gallon setup. I am ditching all the sand/laterite substrate, and all decorations, and all the plants, and "whats left" of the few fish.

2. All I will have left is an empty tank, 2 submerisable heaters, 1 hood, an eheim 2028 filter.


Questions:

1. Is there a certain concentration of bleach to use to kill any disease/infection in the tank but will not damage the sealants?

2. How will I clean the filter??? This has a blue coarse pad, which i can replace, but it also has 1L of the efhimech and 2L of the efhisubstrat pro...i am assuming you cannot run that stuff through bleachwater. Please tell me if you have experienced otherwise. Will the bleach damage the rubber tubing?

3. Anything else i should consider when going through this?

 

[deangelo]

try hydrogen peroxide instead of bleach its a little milder and wont do damage to the sealants...

 

[Bleeding]

try hydrogen peroxide instead of bleach its a little milder and wont do damage to the sealants...

I'm so sick of this thing, I am getting ready to try fire.....

 

[Euge]

i swear i posted some links on this thread. Did you start another one some where? I'll try find em again

 

[Euge]

here
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31934&highlight=Disinfect

 

[Crustman]

It seems useless to start over again. If the fish are dying, then the following could be the problem: Your livestock were sick or diseased. Purchase from a more reliable seller. Your tank was not cycled or it could not handle the bioload. Change the water more often or use more carbon or Biochem zorb. Any external parasite in the tank could be knocked out with Coppersafe after a 2 week treatment. If the fish have external or bacterial diseases that won't respond to treatment, then just dispose of them. The gravel and everything else is fine.

 

[awdawg]

I was gonna say, if you just clean it out with the regular vinegar method then leave it out a week or two dried out, I'd imagine it would be fine, any aquatic germs / diseases should cease no?

 

[synapse989]

that's what I was thinking awdawg... everyone SHOULD know that if you let your filters dry out the BB dies... ...same thing with germs and stuff that's waterbound..

just clean it well and rinse rinse rinse.. ..when I got my 90 gallon, it had remnants of a fish that die and was left in there for two months rotting away.. I thought the whole tank was fouled when I got it.. I just powerwashed it and end of story. ..of course then I broke a corner and now it houses my ball python..

 

[Bleeding]

here
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31934&highlight=Disinfect

Yes sir, i read that post you gave me before, however, one of my questions is what to do with the filter. I dont think just leaving it in the sun is sufficient....mabye it is, i dunno but thats what the other gentleman suggested.

My tank is cycled just fine, its been up and going with no ammonia or nitrites for six months probably. I doubt some guppies and platys in a 55 will overload an eheim 2028. I do 2 wc per week at 30% each. Somehow still, i have fish dropping left and right...i came home to 5 dead today.

I did not have this problem until i started using this 55 gallon tank...these fish started in a 20 gallon, and eventually overpopulated it. I think the tank might have had something bad in it before i aquired it, and all i did was rinse before i set it up.

 

[johnptc]

i vote for bleach... cheap and it works and easy to neutralize....i dont think it would attack any cured sealants. mix with tap water.....read the label on clorox it will give the amount to add per gallon

i bleach all my filter bags and cartridge filters. i use pool chlorine and i mix it very strong....it disolves the organics......

i would throw out what you can and bleach the rest including the bio media........let the filters run.............with bio media

after several days do muliple rinses and then re fill and run for w few days with a very high dose of prime.......maybe 20x.....

rinse fill add prime and start at the very beginning

I have a few questions for those that have decided to destroy all living things in a tank and start from scratch. After battling with disease, killing other peoples fish with my fish, and doing some research, this is what i have left:

1. I am going to use bleach to clean my tank. This is a 55 gallon setup. I am ditching all the sand/laterite substrate, and all decorations, and all the plants, and "whats left" of the few fish.

2. All I will have left is an empty tank, 2 submerisable heaters, 1 hood, an eheim 2028 filter.


Questions:

1. Is there a certain concentration of bleach to use to kill any disease/infection in the tank but will not damage the sealants?

2. How will I clean the filter??? This has a blue coarse pad, which i can replace, but it also has 1L of the efhimech and 2L of the efhisubstrat pro...i am assuming you cannot run that stuff through bleachwater. Please tell me if you have experienced otherwise. Will the bleach damage the rubber tubing?

3. Anything else i should consider when going through this?