Cleaning New Tank
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 10:25 pm
Hi there!
For some background, I have a 20-gallon tank that I acquired through offer up as I want to get my crabs out of their 10 gallon (not crowded, I just want more building room and to be able to take in some new ones perhaps). The 20 gal was quite dirty though and definitely needed some TLC so I went through with water and OxiClean (looking back on that, not my best choice but all I had and I was sleep deprived) to get all of the grime off the tank as there was some quite stuck on there. Now that it's clean, I need to clean out any leftover OxiClean obviously, but my tap water has chloramine which won't just evaporate out of the tank, and my dechlorinator is a very small scale one. my dad has Campden tablets (sodium metabisulphite, technically meant to remove chloramine to make water for brewing beer) that he's offering for me to use, but even then I don't know if that could harm the crabs once I move them in.
Basically, I'm just not sure of the best way to clean out any OxiClean remnants as well as keep the chloramine out of the tank? or if I need to even worry about the chloramine since the tank is likely going to sit for a week or two before I start filling it?
Sorry if any of this is confusing at all!
For some background, I have a 20-gallon tank that I acquired through offer up as I want to get my crabs out of their 10 gallon (not crowded, I just want more building room and to be able to take in some new ones perhaps). The 20 gal was quite dirty though and definitely needed some TLC so I went through with water and OxiClean (looking back on that, not my best choice but all I had and I was sleep deprived) to get all of the grime off the tank as there was some quite stuck on there. Now that it's clean, I need to clean out any leftover OxiClean obviously, but my tap water has chloramine which won't just evaporate out of the tank, and my dechlorinator is a very small scale one. my dad has Campden tablets (sodium metabisulphite, technically meant to remove chloramine to make water for brewing beer) that he's offering for me to use, but even then I don't know if that could harm the crabs once I move them in.
Basically, I'm just not sure of the best way to clean out any OxiClean remnants as well as keep the chloramine out of the tank? or if I need to even worry about the chloramine since the tank is likely going to sit for a week or two before I start filling it?
Sorry if any of this is confusing at all!