Tank Steralization

[Mentat]

Sorry if sound like the devil's advocate; but sterilization is a do 100% thing or not. The plants, catfish, a milliliter of water, filter media... anything that came from your previous enclosure that is not bleached, baked, etc. can harbor any pathogens present in old set-up.

The ideal process is to quarantine any new frogs in a hospital like set-up for at least 30 days while a new vivarium is settling down and maturing a bit. The future enclosure (and all none porous decor/equipment) can be cleaned with bleach or Wipe Out. Wood and stones (including filter sintered glass media) can be baked for 1 hour at 250F and leave in oven to cool down through the night.

If reusing plants they should be soaked in a mild bleach solution (as in vivarium section for concentration) and all substrate discarded. Still, I'm not sure if aquatic plants will survive bleach. In case of a known pathogen; would recommend discarding all plants and starting with new ones.

This is probably not the answer you were expecting; but is the only way to minimize risk to new frogs and also prevent the new frogs from bringing any diseases into your redone enclosure. Good luck !

[carsona246]

I ended up just doing a plant swap to be on the safe side. I didn't have a terribly safe way to sterilize the cories, so I just used as little water as possible to introduce them. I don't think I'll need a hospital tank considering these are the only frogs that will be introduced into the tank.
Tank should be all sterilized and ready to go now.
A handy trick I learned for anyone doing this in the future is to dose double the amount of dechlorinator in the tank after using bleach to insure all of the bleach is neutralized. I rinsed everything in a 1/20 solution of bleach and let it sun dry for the majority of the day. Rinsed everything completely, then filled up the tank and put everything inside of it and dosed double the recommended amount of dechlorinator. Then drained/rinsed it one more time before filling it the final time.

[deranged chipmunk]

aquatic plants,with the exception of the moss, will survive a mild 1:20 bleach dip easily. all my aquatics get a bleach dip before going into any of my planted tanks or vivs. but i only use it to kill snails. mosses are a bit more sensitive to bleach and i usually use a 1:40 solution for those.