Disinfecting syphon

[abbyn]

One of my fish died yesterday and I wasn't sure why. I took it out and left it in the net in my bucket of supplies overnight because it was late at night and I planned on dealing with it in the morning. Today when I took it out there were worms crawling all over it >.< a problem that I thought I got rid of a long time ago. I was going to clean my tank but I found the worms had gotten on to my syphon. I got all the parasites off but I'm worried about using the syphon to clean my other tank because I don't want to introduce the parasite. I put in hot water for a minute to try and disinfect it but removed it because the plastic was starting to feel soft. What are other ways that I can disinfect it that wont be harmful to the fish and have I already ruined it somehow?


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[Caliban07]

One of my fish died yesterday and I wasn't sure why. I took it out and left it in the net in my bucket of supplies overnight because it was late at night and I planned on dealing with it in the morning. Today when I took it out there were worms crawling all over it >.< a problem that I thought I got rid of a long time ago. I was going to clean my tank but I found the worms had gotten on to my syphon. I got all the parasites off but I'm worried about using the syphon to clean my other tank because I don't want to introduce the parasite. I put in hot water for a minute to try and disinfect it but removed it because the plastic was starting to feel soft. What are other ways that I can disinfect it that wont be harmful to the fish and have I already ruined it somehow?


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Perhaps sitting the siphon on boiling water? Boiling water will kill most bugs.

For future reference, it's good practice to have separate equipment for each tank. Maybe use a colour coding system. That way you don't have to worry about transferring bacteria/parasites.


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