Sterilising non glass items with strong salt solution.

Basically opinions on how much salt to how much water and how long to leave it in ?

Why are they being sterilized?

Saturated solution will do, but boiling is the best bet for those things that won't melt.

Bleach also works..

or boiling water, kettle, boil... pour, kills everything!

All I do if it's nets and things is boil the jug a few times, throw the water and a handful of salt in a bucket, soak overnight and then rinse everything out well.

Worked for me after the dreaded guppy disease attacked my tanks, i was obsessed with soaking everything, ornaments, nets, sponge filters because I was so paranoid. :nilly:

All I do if it's nets and things is boil the jug a few times, throw the water and a handful of salt in a bucket, soak overnight and then rinse everything out well.

Worked for me after the dreaded guppy disease attacked my tanks, i was obsessed with soaking everything, ornaments, nets, sponge filters because I was so paranoid. :nilly:

what's this dreaded guppy disease?

I have lost 5 adult guppys in four weeks , starting with my three big females ... and I haven't figured out what got them. All the other fish in the community tank are fine including sensitive ottos. I only have three adult guppys left.. a snakeskin who seems strong and robust, a little wildtype, and a red tux who has slowed down in the last two days and preferring to stay near the bottom of tank. I think he might be next :-(

My QT tank is full of fry and I don't want to infect them if I can help it.

I haven't had any new additions for months . water changes are regular, nothing unusual in the water testing.

I bought half a dozen of the most massive girls i've ever seen, and a couple of males, from two different places. Had them in their own tank. I also had some of the fancy ones from HFF in a tank with swords, platys and whatnot. I mixed a few around (stupid!). My big females dropped fry, I moved them to another tank. All of them died overnight. I got more fry the next day which I moved to a breeding net in the same tank because I thought maybe i'd done something and killed them, they died overnight. Then I lost a male suddenly, then all my big girls. My HFF fish died off eventually too. They looked almost like they had finrot which I treated for. And I know it sounds gross but if I went back to check on them and one had died they had fungus all over straight away. Still no idea what it was but it was only guppies, and after reading on the forum and searching online it seems no one knows anything much anyway. Put me off keeping guppies which sucks because they're my favourite.

So you can see why I was on a mission to soak everything!

I know Pakuranga isn't exactly close to you but if you need a spare tank to try and treat them let me know.