My First Quarantine Tank

[leebca]

Your use of the word "together" is a bit disturbing to me. Just be clear, the cleaning process goes like this:

1. Rinse it all off with tap water;
2. Wash out with a sponge soaked in vinegar (use gloves) or rinse out equipment with straight vinegar (see below);
3. Rinse with a lot of tap water to remove vinegar;
4. Repeat 2. but using a mild soap (see below);
5. Rinse with a lot of tap water to remove all traces of soap;
6. Rinse with store bought bleach (see below) diluted 1:10;
7. Rinse with a lot of tap water;
8. Repeat 7 two more times!
9. Rinse with RO/DI or distilled water;
10. Let go dry.

The vinegar is the least expensive you can buy. Usually apple-cider vinegar. You want to use a vinegar without additives -- a pure vinegar.

The mild soap to use is one that has the least perfume, no ammonia, and is a liquid. Some dish soaps don't fit this category, so I can't tell you to use dish soap. But there are some soaps that do meet these requirements. I usually use Ivory liquid hand soap, but there are others.

The bleach is a household bleach without additives or scents added. Take a cup of that and add 9 cups of tap water to that to make the 1:10 dilution.

I can't over emphasize the need to rinse a lot.

Good luck!

[goldenmean]

Lee I cannot thank you enough!!!