so today i was getting everything ready to upgrade from my 44 reef to a 90. In this proces i had to take down a computer and a desk. under a portion of the desk, about 10 inches by 2 feet was a piece of wood and the bottom of the piece of wood was covered in black mold as well as the carpet underneath it. before i set up the tank tomorrow i want to know the best way to clean and get rid of the mold problem. HELP Please!!!
mold problem
- Thread starter Master Shake
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use bleach in warm water to wash the area...
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- Upper West Side
There is a product I used called Trifectant. Trifectant is an excellent disinfectant product used by veterinary hospitals, shelters, boarding facilities, kennels, catteries, and aviaries. (Do a google search to learn more)
If you need some, send me a PM, I recently opened a package of powder to treat mold which was found when they opened up my bathroom ceiling. I can arrange to mix some up for you, you would just have to bring a spray bottle.
Alfred
If you need some, send me a PM, I recently opened a package of powder to treat mold which was found when they opened up my bathroom ceiling. I can arrange to mix some up for you, you would just have to bring a spray bottle.
Alfred
i think there is color-safe bleach? Clorox makes it...
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- Upper West Side
Color safe bleach probably would not kill mold. What kills mold is the chlorine in the bleach. It is a strong oxidizer, which the color safe brand bleach is not...
Alfred
Alfred
- Location
- Pennsylvania
+1 on the bleach and fan dry for a couple of hours
- Location
- Long Island, New York
+1 on the bleach but I would not fan dry....the less you disrupt mold the better. You do not want to blow and spores around that you may have missed with the spray.
Master Shake, do you know what caused the mold in the first place?
Treating the exhisting mold is of course important, but you also need to stop it's source. You will also need to treat the padding under the carpet.
I would use the product that Alfredo has recommended.
BTW, Welcome back Alfredo!!!!!:hug: Good to have you back.
Treating the exhisting mold is of course important, but you also need to stop it's source. You will also need to treat the padding under the carpet.
I would use the product that Alfredo has recommended.
BTW, Welcome back Alfredo!!!!!:hug: Good to have you back.
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- Location
- Upper West Side
Thanks Awilda.
Chlorine is basically bleach. It will "whitten" your rug/carpet as if you were to use Chlorox. Color safe Chlorox may not contain Chlorine, which is what kills the mold...
Alfred
Chlorine is basically bleach. It will "whitten" your rug/carpet as if you were to use Chlorox. Color safe Chlorox may not contain Chlorine, which is what kills the mold...
Alfred
- Location
- Henderson, KY
Hey guys, bleach is not effective against mold. It will feed the mold spores and while you won't be able to see it when you wipe the mold off, it will reappear with a vengeance. The chemistry doesn't work!
Find a janitorial/carpet cleaning supply house in your area and purchase a quat cleaner or a mildicide. I like interlink products personally. Quat cleaners won't stain or discolor anything and will kill the mold spores.
Also, do NOT use a fan unless you set up a containment area and use air scrubbers. In other words 'don't try this at home' with regard to fans.
Find a janitorial/carpet cleaning supply house in your area and purchase a quat cleaner or a mildicide. I like interlink products personally. Quat cleaners won't stain or discolor anything and will kill the mold spores.
Also, do NOT use a fan unless you set up a containment area and use air scrubbers. In other words 'don't try this at home' with regard to fans.
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- Upper West Side
This is not true. Bleach does an excellent job at killing mold on the surface, the problem is that mold has "roots" and it does not do a good job of killing mold under the surface. Also, you should use Clorox in it's concentrated form, it is already incredibly diluted chlorine. Be sure to not stick around because the chlorine can also kill you if you breath it long enough.
Alfred
Alfred
i aprcate all the help guys, this morning i used disolved pool chlorene to clean the area, then since that was not changing the color of the carpet i decided to use some bleach and that worked well. i let it soak in, and then dried it off. the source was the tank that i took down today to put into the new 90. it had a few spills and i thought it was cleaned up, but apparently not. i now know to clean up better after a spill. the tank transfer is complete and everything is doing great.
Best thing to do is to tear out the carpet, bleach the wood, and then dry the hell out of it with a hair dryer or something similar. The bleach will kill most of the mold, but if you leave dampness, deeper portions of the mold may come back out and spread again -- now fueled by all the organic detritus from the dead mold. If you heat it with a hair dryer or something until the wood actually gets -hot-, you're more likely to drive off moisture and kill residual hyphae.
An important thing to figure out is -why- mold was growing there. Is it possible there's a leak of some sort?
Aah, yeah, that can happen easily. Particularly if there's carpet to wick the water under inaccessible places.
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