Acrylic Disinfection

SS wrote in news:TYKHg.458511$iF6.229380
@pd7tw2no:

Hey, any ideas on how to disinfect acrylic tanks after disease? Bleach?
Will the bleach enter and stay in the acrylic and leech out later? Help
much appreciated.

What disease have you experienced?

Chances are there is very little need for you to go overboard and try to
sterilize your tank after experiencing what you presume to be a contagion.
Most often than not potential pathogens will die back to the point of being
harmless once the environment is clean and healthy and the animals are free
from stress.

Many potential pathogens always exist in any healthy aquatic environment.
It is only when fish are stressed that they are vulnerable to infection.

Unless you've properly identified something potentially a lot more
infectious than a common bacterial, fungal, or simple parasite (such as
Ich), than bleaching your tank does little except wipe out your biological
filer and force your fish to go through the stress of toxic nitrogenous
wastes all over again.

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SS wrote in news:TYKHg.458511$iF6.229380
@pd7tw2no:

Hey, any ideas on how to disinfect acrylic tanks after disease? Bleach?
Will the bleach enter and stay in the acrylic and leech out later? Help
much appreciated.

What disease have you experienced?

Chances are there is very little need for you to go overboard and try to
sterilize your tank after experiencing what you presume to be a contagion.
Most often than not potential pathogens will die back to the point of
being
harmless once the environment is clean and healthy and the animals are
free
from stress.

Many potential pathogens always exist in any healthy aquatic environment.
It is only when fish are stressed that they are vulnerable to infection.

Unless you've properly identified something potentially a lot more
infectious than a common bacterial, fungal, or simple parasite (such as
Ich), than bleaching your tank does little except wipe out your biological
filer and force your fish to go through the stress of toxic nitrogenous
wastes all over again.

You could empty the tank
dry it
and leave it dry for a few days
then rinse it out again
should work against most aquatic nastys
but yea what nasty are you trying to wipe out?