Re: Quaranteen tank

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 04:54:27 GMT, "amanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>I have had same issues before with my 30 gallon tank.  Even though you
>cleaned with bleach and got it all out, there is still residue. I had
>cleaned my tank with mild soap as suggested by many sites and let it sit for
>2 weeks with not fish. 

Bleach isn't the same as soap (mild or otherwise).  Using a simple
chlorine bleach (no extra soaps/ cleaners), it rinses very easily.

>> This was seasoned water.  The temperature was kept the same as in the
>> 75 gallon.  No new water had been added.  How could the tank go cloudy
>> so soon and so quickly?

Cloudiness was probably a bacterial bloom.   There was suddenly a
bunch of ammonia, and so the bacteria started growing quickly to
handle the ammonia. 



Chuck Gadd
http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua