ugh

My mother came to visit me this weekend and while I was at the grocery store she thought it would be a great idea to wash all of my fish equipment (buckets, sponges, scrubbers, gravel vac, etc) in the dishwasher so that they were "clean"..... So now all of my equipment is covered in soap...

ok, so today is my 3rd or 4th time cleaning algae out of my tank. my bettas have been sick, so I have had the carbon out of my filter for a while now. I put medicine in there to help them get better and 10 or so drops (i have a 10 gal tank) of some algae-killing stuff, but it doesn't seem to...