Have an aquarium which had ick which came after buying gold fish from a giant discount retailer store, they died along with all the fish in the tank. Don’t want to mention names but it should be easy to figure out. I have emptied and cleaned the tank and accessories with ammonia water and need to know if I can reuse the rocks or should I get new ones.
Can the rocks be cleaned and still be ok to use? If so, how do I clean them?
I should have mentioned that it is colored gravel.
scrub well with soap then rinse
Yeah, that’s exactly the trouble with buying fish from "a giant discount retailer store."
Re-use the rocks. If you scrubbed them, you likely removed all the ich organisms. Also, ich does not survive for more than a couple of weeks if no fish are present, so if it has been two weeks or more since there were fish in the tank, it is safe. If it hasn’t been that long, just wait a little longer.
Make sure everything has been rinsed very thoroughly to get rid of the smallest trace of ammonia.
Don’t use soap, detergent, or other cleaning chemicals on anything that’s going in your fish tank.
let your rocks soak in a while vinager and water for an hour or so then drain rinse then boil them in a pot on the stove for 10 min. let the rocks cool and re use them, no problem.