So, even though I got a fantastic deal on a new 55 gallon, I just didn’t relish wrestling an old 1/2 inch plate 55 gallon out of my basement, by myself.. so, since this was never confirmed as TB, and had lots of things wrong, it was my 1st restart, almost 2 years ago, I’m trying something… so adult Tin Foils, and other Asian fish will be going in here, and I already had a dozen well seasoned established pothos vines along the back wall… I emptied the tank, pulled the mechanical stuff vacuumed all the rock, and remaining water out, and swabbed around a sponged and a quart of 50 : 50 mix of bleach and water, and then vacuumed that out, and refilled 1/2 full, and added the new sand, after dropping the roots ( they are long ) back in, the diluted chlorine water… I have the air stones running, but no filters yet… once the water clears from adding the sand, I’ll do at least a 50% water change of what is in the tank.. I currently only have well water to fill there, so it’s hard… this next week, I’ll be running a line over from the RO tank… I didn’t really want to throw all the plants away, but if I get any fish deaths that look bacterial, I’ll pull the whole thing down again, and throw the plants, and start from scratch… I know I didn’t get everything “sterile” but hoping the bulk of what I as trying to kill was on the bottom, and that got saturated with 50% chlorine… I’ll move over a filter from the tank that currently houses the tin foils, and will pick up some chlorine remover ( I don’t use it normally, with water from the RO and the well ) I don’t expect to have it ready to move fish, for a couple weeks yet… hoping this works
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