Starting over

[joey’s reef]

I have already filled my saltwater tank up with white distilled vinegar and ran it for two days and drained it, which cleaned it very well. Also treating a couple rusted supports and resealing the seams, with aquarium silicone. What should I use to do a final cleaning before filling it up with saltwater? Just adding this is my first saltwater fish tank.

 

[Fish Fan]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

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Congrats on your first tank, that's awesome!!

What's your plan for the new silicon? Are you sure you need it? It's not a good idea to just smear more silicon over what's already there, new silicon does not stick to old silicon. To reseal a tank, you really need to separate all the glass panel, clean them thoroughly, then reassemble the tank. Just because a tank is used, doesn't mean that it needs to be resealed

After the vinegar, I'd just give it a good rinse and see what it looks like. The vinegar usually gets most of the old deposits off easily.

Good luck with your build!

 

[joey’s reef]

I used a solvent to remove the rust build up. I want to make sure the tank doesn’t have any chemicals in it before I fill it up.

 

[Fish Fan]

I used a solvent to remove the rust build up. I want to make sure the tank doesn’t have any chemicals in it before I fill it up.

What is that a picture of exactly, some type of metal brace? There should be no metal in a saltwater tank