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Anonymous
Use a siphon to drain out as much of the water as possible. Keep it down in the gravel while you do so. Then, when you've gotten as much as you can get (the siphon will start struggling to keep up suction), dump the gravel either in to a bucket (if you want to clean it and reuse it) or in to a flowerbed, backyard, dumpster, etc whatever. Fish shit makes good plant fertilizer, by the by. Vinegar or something else acidic will work for getting rid of the build-up. Scrape it with a razor if you must-- be careful not to scratch the glass. Decorations can be soaked in a water/bleach solution (much more water than bleach), and rinsed EXTREMELY well. DO NOT put anything porous in the bleach solution, or it will leech back in to the water later and kill the fish. This should be used mostly for hard plastic stuff. If you want to reuse the old gravel, rinse it under a sink or hose in a strainer until the water from it runs clear-- then rinse again. Basically, you can't rinse the stuff too much, but doing it too little could kill everything you eventually put back in there.
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