How do you clean a new fish tank?

Question

We just bought a new 75 gallon fish tank and Dad wants to know how we should clean it before we fill it with water and fish and all that...any advice?

Answer 1

Rinse it off with warm tap water and dry with a paper towel or an unused wash cloth. Used wash cloths could have chemicals on it that could seep into the water and kill the fish. If you want to use some other thing to clean it, use diluted vinegar and wash with more warm tap water after to get the vinegar off.

Answer 2

If it was really dirty, you can use a solution of aquarium salt in water (quarter cup per 5 gallons) to wash it out, or if it's just a simple wash, use some dechlorinated tap water to get any dust or junk out of it. Used tanks (which isn't your case) should have a bleach bath, rinsed out until you can't smell anymore bleach.

Answer 3

you can clean it outside with a water hose and then wipe it down with some glass cleaner too. Before you bring it back in the house and fill it up. You might even want to put a background picture on the back side of the tank for the fishes. Plus you can use some of that water cleaner for fish. It won't hurt them it clears the water up from the fishes going to the bathroom.

Answer 4

some people bleach their new tanks.

I give it a scrub with hot water and rinse. Then fill it with water and let it run for a week with carbon in the filter.

This will take out any toxins. remove the carbon after two weeks, because it is then useless.

Don't add fish till it has run for one week.

Only add one or two fish to let the tank cycle.

after a month (or when nitrites have peaked and dropped to '0' add more fish SLOWLY a couple per week at most)

Answer 5

Just give it a good rinsing ...

Answer 6

Rinse it out really well and put your gravel and pump in the tank. You will need to have the tank running for about 1 to 2 weeks be for you put a fish into because the tank needs to be established with bacteria so they can help with the nitrates that the fish will put in the tank. You should also get a biological filter because they keep up the bacteria. You also wont need to change the filters in them you just rinse them out.