Disinfecting Tank

[humBill]

I recently had a bad bout with velvet in one of my tanks. 2 of the fishies
have died and the 3rd is looking bad, but holding on so far. He has been
moved to a hospital tank.

1) Should the home tank be disinfected?

2) If YES to 1) use chlorox?

3) How much chlorox?

4) What do you do to/with the bio wheel?

5) Do I run the filter (with no pads) during disenfecting?

I do also have PP but again wonder about the bio wheel?

Thanxx
Bill Brister - Austin, Texas

[Koi-lo]

"humBill" > wrote in message
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>I recently had a bad bout with velvet in one of my tanks. 2 of the fishies
>have died and the 3rd is looking bad, but holding on so far. He has been
>moved to a hospital tank.
>
> 1) Should the home tank be disinfected?

## Yes! You can use Potassium Permanganate which is easily rinsed out or
BLEACH which isn't quite as easy to remove from gravel. Rinse like mad and
use several times the recommended dose of dechlor' when you fill it. Run it
for at least 48 hours before adding a fish. I don't use bleach anymore but
it will kill the parasites and any bacterial diseases. Some people use a
very strong salt solution but that may not get flukes.

> 2) If YES to 1) use chlorox?
>
> 3) How much chlorox?
>
> 4) What do you do to/with the bio wheel?
>
> 5) Do I run the filter (with no pads) during disenfecting?
>
> I do also have PP but again wonder about the bio wheel?

## I would disinfect that as well. Why disinfect everything else and not
that? Anything can be living on it.

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[~Roy]

10% chlorox solution will kill anything thats in the tank, make sure
you do all things that were in the tank, gravel, pump, filter air
line, airstones, decoratins etc etc and of course the bio
wheel......Its not a big deal to get residual chlorox out of a system,
with the use of chlorine remover. Using too much conditioner is as bad
as not enough. Its easy enough to put the gravel in a bucket to treat
seperately, with chlorox, and rinse fairly well. Odds are if left
overnight chlorine will just about be nil, so regular dose of chlorine
remover ./ water conditioner will work just fine.Once yu start up the
filter, any remaining will be removed by the carbon and that amout
should not impair the carbon at all......within 3 or 4 days it should
be fine to put fish back in as long as you do not overlaod it
initially until the bio filter gets up to par..If you have some other
water form another tank, yu can always seed the tank with it as well.

On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 17:36:06 GMT, "humBill"
> wrote:

>===<>I recently had a bad bout with velvet in one of my tanks. 2 of the fishies
>===<>have died and the 3rd is looking bad, but holding on so far. He has been
>===<>moved to a hospital tank.
>===<>
>===<>1) Should the home tank be disinfected?
>===<>
>===<>2) If YES to 1) use chlorox?
>===<>
>===<>3) How much chlorox?
>===<>
>===<>4) What do you do to/with the bio wheel?
>===<>
>===<>5) Do I run the filter (with no pads) during disenfecting?
>===<>
>===<>I do also have PP but again wonder about the bio wheel?
>===<>
>===<>Thanxx
>===<>Bill Brister - Austin, Texas
>===<>

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[Curious George]

If he has nothing safe to seed the tank/filter do you guys have
feelings on the Bio-Spira product?

http://www.marineland.com/science/nspira.asp

(Looking to try it myself soon, but not sure how high to get my hopes
up.)

[humBill]

I have typically just used a filter mat, but I have heard many times Bio
Spira is the ONLY cycling product that works.
Bill

"Curious George" > wrote in message
...
> If he has nothing safe to seed the tank/filter do you guys have
> feelings on the Bio-Spira product?
>
> http://www.marineland.com/science/nspira.asp
>
> (Looking to try it myself soon, but not sure how high to get my hopes
> up.)