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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V3 #750



> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 11:09:33 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Richard J. Sexton"
> Subject: Alcohol
>
> You really have to admire the net. Sombody asks wat kind of alcohol
> one should use to follow bleach to disinfect a tank and the next
> thing you know, sombody is suggesting distilling it from a yeast
> CO2 culture.
>
> People - nothing can live through bleach. There is no need to
> use alcohol after. Even if there was, simply rubbing (isopropyl)
> alcohol from the drug store would work fine.
>
>
> - --
> Richard J. Sexton                                         richard at aquaria_net
> Maitland House, Bannockburn, Ontario, Canada, K0K 1Y0       +1 (613) 473 1719
>

You mean they were serious!
10% bleach will kill everything with a few minutes soak. Be sure to neutralize the
remaining bleach with chlorine eliminator.
Harvey Schneider
<harvsch at earthlink_net>