Clean Supplies

[Franklins]

I have two questions. My first one is about cleaning out a tank. I read that bleach was good cleaner. I was wondering if just rinseing the tank out with plan water afterwards got all the chemicals from the bleach out?

And my second question is what kind of a job would a tap water filter do compaired to a R.O. unit, what type of substance would the (R.O) filter out that the (tap water filter) would not? Thanks for any info!

Ben

 

[taikonaut]

Water may not do the trick with bleach if you still can smell it. UV light, dechlorinator, and time will help.

tap water filter typically is a carbon filter. RO filter usually have a carbon prefilter. carbon filter works on chemical affinity between carbon and the chemical in water, while RO works on size decrimination. RO is very efficient in getting rid of calcium, while carbon usually not very good at it, for example.

With carbon prefilter, RO filter will be better than plain tap water filter except for the unusual case where the water is exceptional good.

 

[taikonaut]

Hey umm is there anything that would be better to use to steralize a tank? I had some diseased fish in my previous tank.

I didn't know if you knew what type of filter i was talking about. It is a tap water filter made by aquarium pharmaceuticals. It may be a deionizer to not sure. Does this change anything that you said. I had problems with algae in my last tank and i'm pretty sure it was the well water we have. Do you think that filter would be sufficient?

This is the website below. sorry do not know how to do links.


http://www.thatpetplace.com/MainPro/ite ... 198&PgNo=1

Doh!

Did not realize the tap water filter is the TWP, which essentially is a bare-bone DI. It is a fine filter if your input water is very soft, but for hard water, you will need to change the cartidge very often. For some localities, you may only get 20-30 gal per cartidge, which come out to be $1 per gal, roughly. In the long run, a RO/DI will beat it hands down. If you have one already, you can get a regular RO and link them together to make them into a RO/DI.

For steralizing tank due to former disease, I usually just run the tank without host (aka fish) for a few weeks. The parasite usually disappear in the absence of host. So what kind of disease did you have? It is a lot of work with bleach, but some people do that... I am just a lazy bum.

 

[JD'sReef]

I have read that Bleach disipates after like two days from water. I do not know if that is a myth of fact but I have use it over soap. However, i also let my tank sit in the garage for a while and then re rinse later on. That was only with my chiclid tanks though, don't know about the reef (more sensative).

 

[taikonaut]

Bleach is certainly easier to deal with than soap. No soap, no soap, no, never use soap!

 

[Franklins]

I had bought a maroon clown and i guess i had not checked it close enough, because a couple day after bring it home it started to develop the clownfish disease( brooklynella hostilis).

No i have not purchased any filtration unit yet. I just need something that works well and is not to expensive. I have to fill up my 55 and it would be a bummer if the filter did not even get the job done. Im not sure if the my water is hard or soft i will see about getting it tested. any suggestion?

 

[cdeakle]

Bleach is certainly easier to deal with than soap. No soap, no soap, no, never use soap!

AGREED!!!!!