Glass Aquarium-Help

[billfish]

I live in Missouri and we just got hit by a terrible ice storm, my power was out for the past 5 days and I lost all of my fish but one
O.K I'm moving past the grieving, and now I'm trying to clean my glass aquarium. We have really hard water here, and I am finding the inside of my glass has a pretty good film of white now that it is empty and dry.
What do you all suggest I clean it with so I can get it up and running again.

Would a scouring pad and vinager be alright?

Thanks in advance.

 

[GIS Guy]

Vinegar is one of the highly recommended methods of cleaning.

 

[IDunnoWhy]

Sorry to hear about all your fish losses

Vinegar should work well, It may not take off all the hard water marks, but it will get it pretty clean

 

[tropicalfish]

Even though glass does not scratch as easily as acrylic, make sure that you use a good scrubber and that you don't scrub too hard. Constant scrubbing will lead to "micro" scratches

 

[Orion]

Becarefull about the scrub pads, as many have cleaning chemicals in them.

When I get serious about cleaning up an older tank I like to use a straight razor.

 

[amystours]

Not sure if this would be *right*, per se, but I use the blue scotch brite pads. They aren't supposed to scratch non-stick pans, and I have one just dedicated to the tanks. Works great for excess algae. I agree with everyone else about the vinegar...seems to work great if you can get past that terrible smell!!!

Orion, I'm just too clumsy to use a razor blade. Was scraping old window tint off of a car window once and almost sliced my arm off! (Okay, I'm exaggerating, but there WAS lots of blood!!!)