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Cleaned tank totally out rocks soaking in Clorox sand somewhere out in woods and I used CLEANING VINEGAR…….God knows it was a mistake picked up several bottles not noticing one was cleaning. Bubbles, bubbles and more bubbles. Tried sprinkling with table salt……. Now I have 69 lb. live sand 4 cured rocks and bubbles. Does anyone know what I should do ? No, not a nube, 17 years in this and don’t intend to let a beautifully clean tank covered with bubbles Stop me, just need some wisdom here. And will the table salt and bubbles hurt my live sand?
 
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Bubbas said:
Cleaned tank totally out rocks soaking in Clorox sand somewhere out in woods and I used CLEANING VINEGAR…….God knows it was a mistake picked up several bottles not noticing one was cleaning. Bubbles, bubbles and more bubbles. Tried sprinkling with table salt……. Now I have 69 lb. live sand 4 cured rocks and bubbles. Does anyone know what I should do ? No, not a nube, 17 years in this and don’t intend to let a beautifully clean tank covered with bubbles Stop me, just need some wisdom here. And will the table salt and bubbles hurt my live sand?
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So to be clear. You soaked your rocks in bleach. THEN - you added vinegar to those rocks? or your Tank? or what? I assume 'out in the woods' meant you made a mistake rather than doing it 'out in the woods' lol:)...

1. Its good you didn't kill yourself if you did it inside. (Mixing bleach and vinegar creates potentially lethal chlorine gas. If you notice a pungent smell after mixing household cleaners, you should immediately leave the area and try to breathe in fresh air.)
2. Rinse everything VERY thoroughly. (the bubbles are probably chlorine).
3. You can add a very high concentration of a Chlorine neutralizer - change the water - and do it again. you can also get a chlorine tester.
4. Rinse and Rinse and Rinse. And you should be good to go - the problem here is the bleach - not the vinegar. And - you certainly will have nothing living on your rocks or tank

Hope this helps
 
PS the table salt will do nothing - The bleach and vinegar will kill anything in your 'live sand'. (assuming they are all together - the rocks, tank and sand) - but your OP wasn't clear (pun intended)
 
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I’ve always wondered what the reaction looks like when you mix chlorine and vinegar together, but I never tried it because…

Glad you’re still alive, OP! :)
 
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MnFish1 said:
PS the table salt will do nothing - The bleach and vinegar will kill anything in your 'live sand'. (assuming they are all together - the rocks, tank and sand) - but your OP wasn't clear (pun intended)
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Missed the pun
 
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Tired said:
None of that is live anything any more, and you're very lucky you didn't make yourself really sick. Never, NEVER mix cleaning products, especially not bleach and anything.
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What do you mean mnfish
 
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Tired said:
None of that is live anything any more, and you're very lucky you didn't make yourself really sick. Never, NEVER mix cleaning products, especially not bleach and anything.
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I didn’t… cleaned rocks outside in fresh air
 
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Yes, chrlorine gas is ok to use unless you add mustard , I'm so confused, thought this post was about painting ... You guys posted this and I replied to painting, I'm looking at my aquriam but not enjoying as this is weird....
 
Good thing it wasn't ammonia.

I never mixed dangerous chemicals together, however, I did cut and boil pounds of hot peppers just prior to taking a leak.

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never heard of cleaning vinegar before so attempted to research it and all i see is that it has a higher level of acidity than normal vinegar...i dont think it contains any additional cleaning agents but its your bottle so check the list of ingredients...perhaps its just sufficiently acidic to react with newly cleaned rock ( calcium carbonate) and give off CO2 ( the bubbles)....continued flushing in fresh water should get rid of the vinegar and stop the reaction....now if you used clorox and vinegar together that creates chlorine gas( which im pretty sure can kill you in sufficient concentration) and leave behind hypochlorous acid (probably much stronger acid than vinegar hence even more bubbles) and sodium acetate(which i dont think is toxic) and to answer the title of this thread...yes, but they're already dead
 
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If something has bleach on or in it, adding vinegar is mixing bleach and vinegar. If you bleach sand and rock to turn it into dead sand and dead rock, you then add a ton of dechlorinator to it, NOT vinegar.
 
Wyvern said:
Good thing it wasn't ammonia.

I never mixed dangerous chemicals together, however, I did cut and boil pounds of hot peppers just prior to taking a leak.

Fire Elmo GIF
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I wish I didn't know how that felt...it's never good to forget what you are cutting when making salsa and you need a bathroom break!!!!
 
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