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is it ok to clean a new fish tank with a mild detergent i,e hand soap2007-11-24 23:37:38Answers:

my fish tank is filled with bleach, i find that my underwater bunnies do not live long.

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i wouldnt do it.i just use hot water

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It's fine to use, but you have to be sure it's absolutely clean of any residue before setting the tank up.

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NO. NEVER do that!

No matter how much you rinse it, there might be some tiny traces of chemcials left and fishes are VERY VERY sensitive to these chemicals. They can die easily!

Buy some tank cleaners in pet store or use hot water.

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no it's madness to do that if even little of soap remains behind the fishes may die use salt to clean your fish tnk that will be better

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Use hot water and a piece of paper towell. Never use any soap, detergent or glass cleaner on the inside of the tank. Ever! You'll kill them.

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One of the best things that you can use to clean a fish tank is non-iodized table salt. It acts as a good scrubber, and can be easily rinsed out. Just be sure you *DO* rinse the tank well, particularly if you are keeping freshwater fish.

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NO, never use soap in an aquarium

just rinse it out if it is new, if it is used you can scrub it with salt

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never use soap of any kind.

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Its really not good to do that. Get some Cleaner from the fish store.A tank scrubber is great i get my products from pet-smart.com they have free shipping for somethings

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if there are no fish it is ok just use very little and make sure you rinse VERY good

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Generally not I'd just rinse it throughly. The fill. Wait 3 hours. Dump water, and rinse. It you use soap be sure rinse, then fill, dump, and rinse. Soap, and bleach is generally left for cases where all the fish in the tank died. Both are very toxic.

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No.