Cleaning up after QT

[fish.freak]

I have my tank and all of the buckets in the tub filled with hot tap water. I was planning on bleaching everything I used with the qt including the Hydromider, buckets, hoses...
How much bleach per gal do I use then how do I make it safe 4 use again?

Is the bucket used for formalin baths safe to use on livestock after bleaching?

[JennM]

We just bleached a 450 gallon holding system consisting of 18 tanks and a big sump. Used about 1 cup of bleach for the whole thing, ran it for a day, drained it, refilled it with tap water, used Prime to dechlorinate it, ran it for another day, drained it again (including shop-vac out the water from each tank and the sump so they were basically dry) and refilled it with DI, salt and cycled it again. We did not bleach the bio media - we were converting it from a freshwater system.

I'd say just a small amount of bleach should more than suffice.

Why are you bleaching it? Did you have disease in it? I'd think stripping it and letting it all air dry for a few days before refilling it would kill off any remaining microbes before refilling the system - bleach is handy but you really have to be careful to dechlorinate thoroughly before you put living things back in - and cycle the system first.

Jenn

[Kevin1000]

A small amt. of bleach goes along way .. just make sure you rinse well and let dry. I would not be concerned about residual formalin creating a problem .. just rinse everything well .. then scrub/rinse and dry .. no big deal.

[tdwyatt]

One teaspoonful (5ml) of common household bleach (sodium hypochlorite ~5% aq solution) per US Gal (~3780 ml) mixed well. See www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/pdf/bleach.pdf make sure to heed Jenn's warnings about dechlorinating the system prior to the introduction of specimens, and that the system is recycled for biological activation for conversion of ammonia to nitrate