Month 1: June 2022
At the beginning of June I picked up a used Biocube 29g. It had been setting in the guys garage with a couple inches of water for a while and was looking pretty rough.
The first couple of weeks involved citric acid, bleach, and a lot of scrubbing. The rocks were bleached for a bit over a week, then sun dried for several days, before being soaked in tap water with a ton of Prime. Meanwhile I soaked the tank in citric acid and then scraped all of the spirorbid worm and feather duster shells out of the overflow area with a razor blade. The sand bed had more dead snails and bubble algae than sand so I discarded it completely. In retrospect it seems I could have sifted and washed it but you live and you learn.
At the beginning of June I picked up a used Biocube 29g. It had been setting in the guys garage with a couple inches of water for a while and was looking pretty rough.
The first couple of weeks involved citric acid, bleach, and a lot of scrubbing. The rocks were bleached for a bit over a week, then sun dried for several days, before being soaked in tap water with a ton of Prime. Meanwhile I soaked the tank in citric acid and then scraped all of the spirorbid worm and feather duster shells out of the overflow area with a razor blade. The sand bed had more dead snails and bubble algae than sand so I discarded it completely. In retrospect it seems I could have sifted and washed it but you live and you learn.