Anyone else addicted to fish 🙈 I love cleaning the tank, decorating, looking after the fish and of course watching them 😍 I have a 50 gallon tank and a 40 gallon tank and I’m about to use my spare 50 gallon for a pearl scale gold fish 🥺
The tanks look amazing. Great tip. I will try it. I have tanks that have been in storage for the last 25 years. Thanks for sharing. Your channel is awesome.
So glad you made so much beautiful content. Thank you for allowing us on this fun, bumpy and enthusiastic journey with you. I have learnt so much from everything you have done. Peace and love to you all.
Thanks for sharing this with the rest of us. Your baby's as cute as a button. Hope you got a really sweet deal on the Tanks and equipment from that petstore.
I got mine for free. A lot of people don't like the maintenance of fish tanks and then think they're unsalvageable once they're dirty. Then there's those people that don't find it hard to clean fish tanks and know they're still useable. It just depends on the person and that's ok because some tanks find the right place one day...and now my betta has a 10 gallon home instead of his former 3 gallon one lol. He's so happy now.
I bought a 20 year old 150 gallon tank with monster 5/8th glass few months back for very cheap...it was 10x more crusty than yours..rubbing alcohol works VERY good..that and a blade scrapper..now it looks new and houses my African Cichlids
Having picked up 2nd hand tank myself I found your video really useful also entertaining with the young 1, just made the video a bit more real..... 🇬🇧🏴👍🏻
I know this is about cleaning a fish tank. But when you said housewife gloves without making it sound so negative. I can say that was the best part of my childhood. My father had a good enough job to support all of us so my mom to be a housewife and she was always there for me. I think it's sad that so many children missing out on that including mine. Housewives are the best treasure in the world.
Beautiful words. I wish some day will be a world where all people can actually choose if they want to be at home with their kids, without the need to HAVE to work just to provide. I'm Brazilian, but now I live in Finland. And here is like this. Lots of moms and dads staying at home with their kids. Although my family in Brazil was quite poor, I was lucky to have my mom at home with me.
Thankyou so much for making this video so needed it I needed to clean a 10 gallon quick cause I got a nasty ich disease in it also very dirty and I remembered seeing this video and instantly looked up thankyou so much!
But tripods are fun mommy!!! 😂 Excellent video, I just cleaned a hard water stained ten gallon yesterday, I used baking soda made into a paste with water and an unused toothbrush to scrub. It came out pretty good, I wish I had seen this video yesterday though! 🤦🏻♀️🐟
I picked up a second hand tank today - one I found on a yard sale sight. It's really terrible but I'm gonna do my best to fix the seals and clean the hard water stains off. Thanks for this encouraging how to!! I feel more determined to make the best of it now ;)
FYI - the active ingredient in bar keepers friend is Oxalic acid, I have access to this as I also keep bees and it’s good for killing mites. I use this now, in powder form on a damp sponge, it’s very effective BUT make sure you wear gloves 🧤 and don’t use hot water. I’ve refurbished a few old shop tanks and some no matter what you do just won’t be perfect, it’s like it etches into the glass. Well done though, great video, just shows you don’t need deep pockets to expand your hobby 🙂
No at bar keepers friend cleans them! I have so many old snake tanks I bought used from people who had fish. And I scrubbed forever with vinegar and water like I do with all my enclosures, vinegar soap and water, never cleaned it, dumped giant gallons of vinegar never did anything! Thank you so much!
i love barkeepers friend! one of my favorite cleaners in my house! i use vinegar first to start dissolving the calcium, lime or rust and then use BKF to do the rest. your kiddos adorable!
Wow, I love your house, the wood is amazing. Great work cleaning the tanks. Loving your channel, a new discovery for me, making my way through all your videos :) :) :)
(clarification) I'm referring to: "The difference between white vinegar and cleaning vinegar is the level of acidity. The majority of white vinegar has 5 percent acidity, whereas cleaning vinegar has 6 percent. One percent might not sound like much of a difference, but it actually makes the product 20 percent stronger." Thanks in advance
I have had the same issue with bar keepers Friend it does not remove all the stains, you say the magic eraser works better? does it remove everything ?
I found that the most popular aquascapers will use a dish soap without added scents to make the tanks squeaky clean. Personally I use CLR to and a corse sponge or just a magic eraser. Cleaning after with the dish soap to get any residue left behind by the CLR I advise to do 2 wash cycles with the dish soap to really ensure the safety of the fishes
I'm thinking of buying a very obviously used red sea reefer 350, and its in good shape its just insanely dirty and hard water stains, old algae etc its a mess, and part of the glass has a tiny chip in it but they tested it for leaks and applied new silicone to that area and all works well, 450 is the offer and I love that, this video definitely helped me and I'm very much considering this now
Great video, the baby made it even better. You'd be surprised at the tanks I find in the trash. Elbow grease and some barkeepers friend go along way in a fishroom. The price you paid for what you received, well worth it.
I thought she was alone in the house so when I heard that baby giggle off-camera I legit screamed in my head.... perhaps I need to ease up on the scary movies XD
Super easy was to clean the hard water off is just throw in a bunch of snails. If you have a large tank you can just put the whole small tank into that works for inside and outside
I really like how moms can multitask. That was a great effort. Bar Keepers friend appears to work well. Not to take anything away from any of these aquarium tank cleaning videos I would like to remind everyone that a good old fashioned steel wool pad is fantastic on glass. It works the first time every time. Steel wool comes in the non soap form. If you want to use vinegar or bar keepers helper your task will just be that much easier and faster I have had really
WOW YOU DID A GOOD JOB WITH CLEANING THOSE TANKS I COULD NEVER DO THAT GOOD THATS A LOT OF WORK YOU MUST BE TIRED FROM DOING ALL THAT WORK CEANING THEM!!!
Stay at home mommy GOOD mommy. Thank you for your video. My son came home with a "free" 45 gal fish tank. I told him "there are no "free" fish tanks." I wasn't sure what was on the glass - fish kisses? Now I know it's hard water stains. Thanks again.
Thank you for the video! My daughter’s school has a small tank in the entrance that is pretty much abandoned and I’m thinking to ask if I can take care of it for them 🤔 the tank itself is crusty and the gravel looks naaaaasty 🤦♀️ how do you clean the gravel?
I came for the fish, but I have to say; the wood details on your house are terrific. And such a fabulous view! Anyways, for small tanks I fill a baking sheet or brownie pan with straight vinegar and just let the tank soak one end at a time. For faster results you can use muriatic acid diluted with water-but be CAREFUL with acid.
You're eye's are really captivating, I've just got one that looks worse than any of those, the silicone looks ok though, the effort will hopefully be a huge saving on an expensive tank (I got it for free), I'm just hoping I can clean it up as well as you cleaned yours!
Haha, thanks ^^ Tanks are always salvageable with some time and effort! And maybe with some razor blades, silicone, and polish. As long as it is worth your time, I say recycle!
I know this video is pretty old now, so you might already know this lol, but you can get more concentrated acetic acid, I believe at least up to 75%. For comparison, household white vinegar is about 3%. I can guarantee that would dissolve your hard water very quickly. That's how I clean out all the thick water deposits from the water still in the Chem lab. It's generally safe stuff, just don't get it in your eyes and you just have to rinse your skin with cool water for a few minutes if it gets on you. From my experience it doesn't burn immediately, but it will be a little bitey initially if you leave it.
