Hi all.
New here, got a situation here that I have never had to deal with before...
I am setting up a new tank (nice one by the way, 78 gallon plexi/ acrylic hex) and I got a screaming deal on a bunch of USED plastic/ resin aquarium decorations @ a garage sale ( I would buy new but @ Petsmart we would be looking @ around $150 worth of stuff).
I do not trust this decor as far as disease, bacteria etc. as it is used... I figure hydrogen peroxide is the way to go to insure I do not possibly contaminate my new set up; as you can't boil plastic and as there is a lot of porosity involved here along w/ old dried on algae... I really don't want to risk the bleach/ water solution method due to the porosity in these cast resin pieces....I have searched this site and all over the web and I still cannot find the proportion of peroxide to water in solution to assure effective sterilization & cleaning of these objects to safeguard my new setup from contamination...Does anybody know offhand how much peroxide to water to accomplish this? I will be doing this in a large stainless sink as the items I'm sterilizing & cleaning are pretty good sized...(Huge castle, something that looks like the great wall of China, etc.)
Thanks in advance for any help on this;
J.D.
New here, got a situation here that I have never had to deal with before...
I am setting up a new tank (nice one by the way, 78 gallon plexi/ acrylic hex) and I got a screaming deal on a bunch of USED plastic/ resin aquarium decorations @ a garage sale ( I would buy new but @ Petsmart we would be looking @ around $150 worth of stuff).
I do not trust this decor as far as disease, bacteria etc. as it is used... I figure hydrogen peroxide is the way to go to insure I do not possibly contaminate my new set up; as you can't boil plastic and as there is a lot of porosity involved here along w/ old dried on algae... I really don't want to risk the bleach/ water solution method due to the porosity in these cast resin pieces....I have searched this site and all over the web and I still cannot find the proportion of peroxide to water in solution to assure effective sterilization & cleaning of these objects to safeguard my new setup from contamination...Does anybody know offhand how much peroxide to water to accomplish this? I will be doing this in a large stainless sink as the items I'm sterilizing & cleaning are pretty good sized...(Huge castle, something that looks like the great wall of China, etc.)
Thanks in advance for any help on this;
J.D.