Cleaning Time!

The tank that we got, for our aquarium, from Blake's parents house was a little dusty and still had a lot of hard water crusted on the glass. We were told the best way to get hard water off of the glass was to use water and vinegar. There were a ton of different methods we looked up but we decided just to scrub it down with mostly vinegar and just rinse it out in the end. We ended up taking it outside as to not make the house soaking wet! Just to make sure that it didn't leak, because that would be an important thing to check, we filled the whole thing up with water from the hose. We were pretty happy that it didn't :)

We even found this cute guy on the hose while we were filling it up! Snails are weird...

There were a few scratches on the glass and I think Blake was a little more torn up about that than I was :) We just have to pick a side that has less scratches, and remember that will be the front!

After we filled it up we dumped the water out and started scrubbing it down with the vinegar water, after sitting in storage unused for probably over a decade that stuff was on there pretty permanent! Luckily after a while of scrubbing it we got most of the hard water off of the tank.

Finally we rinsed it with the hose, one last time then dried it! Now we are as prepared as we are going to be and so excited to start the long, slow, rewarding process of owning a saltwater aquarium!