littlerob904
Aquarium Advice Regular
In the process of cleaning my new tank, which was given to me by a coworker. I found something pretty unfortunate. My tank has an integrated wet/dry filter. The rear of the filter is sectioned off by acrylic inserts and some grating. I noticed that at some point, a fish or invertebrate of some sort managed to get itself underneath the grating in the rear of the filter system and died. There is what appears to be some sort of skull bone? floating around in a trapped section, and in a second trapped session there is a brown slime that is pasted to the bottom of the tank. I attempted to clean this yesterday when I realized in my frustration that it seems to be completely unreachable. The acrylic inserts which separate the filter section are permanently joined to the tank, with the rear grating permanently joined to the inserts. There seems to be no feasible way I could access either of these issues to clean them. The tank is currently filled with a bleach solution with the filter running, hoping to clean out any bacteria / disease that was present before I recieved the tank.
I don't know what to do about what appears to be remains, I can't access them to clean it out, will the bleach cleaning suffice to kill whatever bacteria / disease could be present from the remains?
I really was hoping to get this tank running and I'm afraid if I don't clean up this issue it will cause a lot of problems.
I don't know what to do about what appears to be remains, I can't access them to clean it out, will the bleach cleaning suffice to kill whatever bacteria / disease could be present from the remains?
I really was hoping to get this tank running and I'm afraid if I don't clean up this issue it will cause a lot of problems.