Cleaning an old tank..

[LizMarie]

Well today my mother friend bought over and extra tank he had. (I'm super cheap) He was suppose to give me a 15gallon but then he took it out of the storage closet he had it in he saw that the bottom had a crack and didn't want to give me anything broken so he bought over a ten gallon.

While it's whole its freaking dirty! How should I go about cleaning it? It still has some gravel stuck in the corner and has some odd water stain on the back. Any ideas?

 

[RepBex]

Take it out side fill it with very hot water, leave to cool, empty and it shoudl take the stones with it, spray down with a hose if you have one, get a buket with blech in it very low ration, scrub the inside, rinse , do out out side, rinse, dry it , go over with reptile safe cleaner and your done

i got given my 20 gl and it was very dirty indeed and this is what i did and it worked well

 

[fOOlsgOld]

If it's glass and you have trouble w/ the water marks get a fine steel wool pad (I use the ones w/ out the soap) and scrub it with that. Dose the trick for me. I got a 55gal that was used for turtles and it had lime and algae dried on the sides. It took a LOT of scrubbing but I got it all cleaned up w/ a wool pad and some vinegar.

 

[Bennayboi]

Put a coffee filter over the drain in your tub, then bring the tank in and hose it down while its on its side.