Okay so I went and picked up the 55gal today. i was half full and had about 100 platies in it. my friends mom took most of them the rest was givin away on Craigslist. the guy i got it from said he got it a year ago and bought 3 mickey mouse 1m2f and 3 sunburst 1m2f and 3 red wag 1m2f. he left town last june and everything got unplug a month later wen he got back it was over ran. so he never hooked anything back up. I cleaned most the algae out today but it needs scraped with a razor beause of cloudyness from evaporation and chemicals. (he kept doing water changes and using proper chems.) I got the stand, decor, (no rocks he kept them since they was from his flower bed.) then tank, hoods, light, and a 16 oz almost full bottle of stress coat and stress zyme. also the filter and heater. It was all free all i did was empty it and move it. now here we go the filter is full of algae and water. it is a Marineland Magnum350 how would i go about cleaning this and the fluval heater? I want to hook this setup up but do not want another algae outbreak. im going to scrap the tank glass with a razor and use a good clean new spong on the silicone. then wash it out real good with the hose and let air dry will that work?