Reddit mentions of Instant Ocean BIO-Spira Water Treatment for Aquariums, 8.45-Ounce (46798779643)

If you kept the water that came with the tank: do 20% water changes each day for 5 days, that way the fish will slowly acclimate to clean water, otherwise it might be stressed.

If you already are using clean water cause you threw out the old water:

1. make absolutely enough water to fill up the entire tank.
   
   
2. move the fish to a bucket
   
   
3. drain the tank, throw out or thoroughly rinse the substrate (you want to get all the crap out of it); proceed to cleaning the tank and rocks as you see fit, RO/DI or dechlorinated water only, there can absolutely not be any chlorine in the water (you are going to spend several hours scrubbing that algae off of the tank)
   
   This should clean up the tank in a major way.
   
   Im amazed the fish survived that.
   
   Also please post what other equipment came with the tank.
   
   Dont get discouraged! you are a very nice person for wanting to make a better environment for a helpless animal! :)
   
   best of luck!!!
   
   forgot to mention add an airstone and a heater to the bucket with the fish!
   
   Edit: (This is just a bonus not necessary) after you finish you may want to kickstart the bio filtration, so the fish doesnt get burned by its own ammonia, something like this will help immensely: https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Ocean-BIO-Spira-Treatment-Aquariums/dp/B003ODDS5E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526508607&sr=8-1&keywords=BIO-SPIRA

Urine aside.... what was ammonia at initially after adding the.... urine...? Was it higher than 3 ppm? 11 days isn't overly long. I used powdered ammonium to start a cycle recently and ended up with 8 ppm! Took almost 4 weeks drop to 0 ppm, and about 2 weeks before seeing any movement. What did add for beneficial bacteria? Something like this?

I had great results using and piece of shrimp and https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ODDS5E/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 to cycle my tank when I started it back up.

So I'm thinking a complete start over would probably be the best, there's just so much algae, and crud in the tank that I think I'd never get it all. O_o. So here's what I'm thinking, does it seem like a good plan of action?

I haven't done anything to the water that was in the tank, and since freaking the fish out would be bad, I was thinking that I could get a 5 gallon bucket andpull out enough of the old water to put my clownfish in, then add an air stone and a heater.

Then I'd head over to the fish store and buy 100 gallons of water (they have the gear to make saltwater, I don't) and pull everything out of the tank. As suggested in another post, I figure I'll dip the reef rock in muriatic acid bleach to clean them, and then put them in some saltwater with no light for a month or so. I will also buy a couple of new pieces of live rock to help seed the clean dry rock.

Then I'd scrub the tank clean, using a scrub brush, and some clean (not tap) water, clean up the filter (and change the filter inserts), scrub the skimmer and heater and current makers, then add the new water, some substrate, and the stuff that you linked to.

Then after the month, pull my reef rocks out of the dark bucket, and reintroduce them to the aquarium. I figure by then my ecosystem would be pretty prime to reintroduce the rock.

Does this seem like a good plan? Any things you'd change about it? I really wanna get this right. My clownfish needs his home cleaned up. Plus I really want a beautiful reef tank.

EDIT Decided against using acid to kill the rocks, but will use bleach. I've read that a 10:1 ratio is good for a few days, will probably soak in bleach water for 3 days, then pull rock out, refresh the bleach water, then soak again for 3 days, then let bake in the heat of the sun for a week to dry it out, then put it in salt water with Bio-Spira to get it back to living rock.

https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Ocean-BIO-Spira-Treatment-Aquariums/dp/B003ODDS5E
Seems there are two items called bio spira