r/Aquariums • u/Main_Initial_7118 • Jan 25 '24

Parents cleaned my tanks without asking :/ Betta

Came home today to this. First pic is what they put the fish in for god knows how long, last pic is my tank before they cleaned it. They told me it was bc my room looked “messy”. They are old so I don’t blame them…. But damn…

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u/Sethdarkus Jan 25 '24

And or vinegar

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u/Hopenhagen420 Jan 25 '24

In school I was only told hot/boiling water

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u/llamaporn227 Jan 25 '24

Boiling water would kill your bacteria too, no?

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u/Hopenhagen420 Jan 25 '24

Yes I was told to use only hot or boiling water when I was taking classes for animal management

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u/Sethdarkus Jan 26 '24

Hot boiling water if anything has more risk of breaking glass

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u/Hopenhagen420 Jan 26 '24

Not for anything glass more like driftwood

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u/Sethdarkus Jan 26 '24

That makes sense also I just wanna add that it isn’t a smart idea to boil rocks the air pockets within the rock you can’t see can cause the rock to explode and it’s not something you wanna be around when it happens