Starting my tank over!

What is the best way to clean my tank. I am starting over . I took everything out and want to start all over. How should I clean my live rock and everything else. Any input would be awesome. Thanks.
Its a 29 gallon nano cube.

 

This is what I did.

1. Got dry base rock and cycled it in a separate container for 2 weeks.
2. Removed water into large plastic container, placed corals and fish in that container with a power head.
3. Once all the rock/water..... fish were removed I removed all the sand. I did not replace the sand that is up to you.
4. Scrubbed all tank walls with FW and rinsed, and repeated.
5. I did not touch the back chambers and left the sponge and charcoal in place to seed the tank again.
6. Once the tank was clean I added the dry base rock that had been cycling.
7. Filled the tank back up with all the water I removed and added the corals and fish.

Knock on wood but I have not lost a fish or coral since do this to my tank over 1 month ago.

Good Luck

 

I gave my fish to my neighbor. I already dumped the water out. I am getting new sand. I just want to now what is the best way to scrub the tank and get it nice and clean. The only thing that I am saving is the live rock. I am soaking the live rock in fresh water right now to kill everything on it. My tank was so infested with stuff, I just wanted to kill everything and start fresh. What is the best way to clean the live rock also? Not so live anymore.

 

look up "nuking live rock" that should make sure everything is killed.

 

If you want to use the same rocks but kill off all the “bad stuff”, I would nuke the rocks. I find a 16 to 1 bleach solution works great for this. The only problem is the rock is usable for quite a while afterword, you have to raise it, cycle it, that kind of thing. If you have the time and want to keep the rock I would go with this solution. No matter what route you tank on the rocks I would defiantly use the bleach solution for the glass and any filtration parts that you want to clean. You should listen to above and leave a bag of carbon unrinsed to seed the tank.

Hope this helps I learned a lot of this from experience

 

What do you mean by raise it and cycle it?

 

You have the let the rock soak in rodi water few a few days, test tds, repeat. Most people will say let the rock soak for a week at a time and test. Then you have to keep doing this until the tds gets to 0 or very near 0. In some cases this can take a very long time. But it’s the only way to get the phosphate out of the rock so that you can reuse it.

 

What is the best way to get the dried coraline off the tank.

 

Never dealt with it, but scrape it off with a razor blade. it should come off no problem.

 

I filled the tank with water and vinegar and going to let it soak for awhile. How long should I let it soak?