Just got my first tank

[psalyga]

Hello Everyone,
I just got my very first tank yesterday and im eager to start things off right. The Tank, measuring 30x18x12 ( 30 gallons???), belonged to my brother and he passed it down to me. Currently the tank needs to be rinsed and disinfected. Is there any particular products I should be using during this stage of the setup? Thank You for you suggestions.

[Drumachine09]

You can use a diluted bleach soloution. I can remember the ratio, but i think its 20:1


Congrats on the tank!


Welcome to the A.C.!

[Sasquatch]

You can clean it with bleach and elbow grease, I use a 9:1 water to bleach ratio and run charcoal in the empty tank to get rid of any residues.

I highly suggest downloading the free e-book on this site, it'll give a lot of good advice to start with.

Good luck and welcome to the AC.

[Lady Hobbs]

By all means, cycle your tank before adding fish. This will save you tons of work NOT doing water changes and save the life of the fish.

[cocoa_pleco]

python sells a product for cleaning thats harmless to fish