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Post by mmfed01 on Feb 12, 2018 8:26:33 GMT -5
While I've bleached many tanks in my time, I'm wondering what a reasonable bleach to water ratio would be. I'm looking to kill off anything in the gravel bed before I repopulate the tank....
Mike
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Post by devonjohnsgard on Feb 12, 2018 14:30:15 GMT -5
"In cases where parasites, bacteria, or other unknown pathogens have ravaged your aquarium (major disease outbreaks that have wiped out a tank), the above salt method may not be enough and use of chlorine/bleach sterilization (usually at an approximate ratio of 20/1; water/bleach). Many disease pathogens capable of encasing themselves in a hard shell which is capable of withstanding changes in temperature, drying, high or low salt (which is why the salt method is NOT 100%), acids, bases, and other conditions that occur in nature, for which chlorine/bleach is the only sure way of ridding your aquarium of these bugs." www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Aquarium_Disease.html#sterilize
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Post by mmfed01 on Feb 13, 2018 8:57:24 GMT -5
Thanks Devon. 20:1 beats the Miller Estimated Method (MEM) of dumping in bleach until I'm satisfied everything is dead lol.
Mike
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Post by devonjohnsgard on Feb 13, 2018 12:36:17 GMT -5
lol
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