RedForeman ©®
April 7th 04, 01:54 PM
Continuing the Eradication of BBA thread, I've taken down my 29g that was
pretty infested and did a total tank nuking with clorox.... I was hesitant,
but that larger than life thread about it earlier, kinda persuaded me to
look and see that I indeed needed to do something so that we could have our
tank back.
The gravel was furry, the walls were furry, so I pulled all the fish, that's
where I learned I had a new Oto, pics are available, and will probably be
posted in alt.binaries.aquaria in a few.
After all life were pulled, I did a 90% water change, cleaning most of the
gunk that was under the substrate, etc... started running water back in,
stirred up gravel and washed it, then added 1g of bleach, and ran the
filters for an hour, killed my biofilter on accident, but the filters were
covered in the BBA anyway, so no harm no foul..
2 days later, I did a waterchange, mixed up substrate, all the white fuzz is
gone, been vacuumed several times, so I think it's ok.
4 days later, the MTS have all risen and been transferred to another tank,
they're tough boogers...
4 more days, and I'll be adding ammonia.... Time for a fishless cycle....
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RedForeman ©® future fabricator and creator of a ratbike streetfighter!!!
==========================
2003 TRX450ES
1992 TRX-350 XX (For Sale)
'98 Tacoma Ext Cab 4X4 Lifted....
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is that better??
pretty infested and did a total tank nuking with clorox.... I was hesitant,
but that larger than life thread about it earlier, kinda persuaded me to
look and see that I indeed needed to do something so that we could have our
tank back.
The gravel was furry, the walls were furry, so I pulled all the fish, that's
where I learned I had a new Oto, pics are available, and will probably be
posted in alt.binaries.aquaria in a few.
After all life were pulled, I did a 90% water change, cleaning most of the
gunk that was under the substrate, etc... started running water back in,
stirred up gravel and washed it, then added 1g of bleach, and ran the
filters for an hour, killed my biofilter on accident, but the filters were
covered in the BBA anyway, so no harm no foul..
2 days later, I did a waterchange, mixed up substrate, all the white fuzz is
gone, been vacuumed several times, so I think it's ok.
4 days later, the MTS have all risen and been transferred to another tank,
they're tough boogers...
4 more days, and I'll be adding ammonia.... Time for a fishless cycle....
--
RedForeman ©® future fabricator and creator of a ratbike streetfighter!!!
==========================
2003 TRX450ES
1992 TRX-350 XX (For Sale)
'98 Tacoma Ext Cab 4X4 Lifted....
==========================
ø¤°`°¤ø,¸¸¸,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸¸¸,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸¸,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸¸¸,ø¤° `°¤ø,¸¸,ø¤°`°¤ø
is that better??