The Puffer Forum

so i picked up my 46 gal. bow front tank from my brothers place today.wow. what a mess. apparently he hadnt done a WC in about oh say 8 months. he just topped it off to keep the noise down. needless to say its got the cure for cancer growing in all the mold and muck on the tank. looks like this project of setting up a SW fowlr tank for my GSP is going to be alot more work that i had planned. here are a few pics of what im working with now.


doesnt look so bad from a distance


the hood. gross.

i wish i would have taken pics of the filter and gravel before i cleaned that out. it was even worse.

Get some Muriatic acid from the hardware store go get all that hard water crud off.

im planning on it. going to have to wait a few days though. im not planning on leaving the house on account of all the crazy people out on black friday haha. so im working off my food coma from turkey day scrubbing all that crud off as best as i can tonight.

Apple cider vinegar works perfect for getting hard water stains off for me.

We just cleaned a crusty tank with vinegar, but I didn't bother with the crusty lid, I just use screen.