Hospital tank: What to do when done ?

jennfier

jennfier

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I'm done with my 10g hosp tank (fish died). I know to disinfect everything (bleach wipe or soak or vinegar ?), throw away filter media (Penguin biowheel 200); bleach inside of filter too ?. Do I replace the wheel too or keep for next hospital set up ? What about the the rock and handful of gravel I had in there ? Those are porous so can I just use vinegar instead of bleach ? Or alcohol ? :huh: Thanks.
 
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I never use/waste a cycled filter/media on an H tank for just these reasons. Normally I rely on 25% every other fay wcs. When I am done with the H tank I bleach the tank and everything that was in it, esp if the fish dies rather than recovers.

Tank gets a heater, an airstone, some plastic plants and a rock or two and that is it. All these things can be bleached safely. I never use a sponge as bleaching will degrade them. I never use cycled media as bleaching will kill the bacteria so why waste them?
 
hey there - have you thought about keeping it up? I set up my 5 gal hospital/qt at the same time you did with cycled material. I was thinking of keeping it set up ... my fish did died also ... all I did was a water change and put in a new filter with carbon ... should I of broken it down??? I have a lone guppy in there right now.
 
yeah, you probably want to take it down and disinfect it as TwoTankAmin suggests. otherwise, you stand a chance of giving the same disease to the next fish you put in there :(
 
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