Methods for cleaning the tank, water changes

To clean your aquarium (freshwater or saltwater) a Gravel Vacuum attached to a siphon or recirculating filter works best. If you have a planted aquarium, I recommend # 00 sand (5.3 cm) mixed with laterite or conditioned soil with gravel # 3 (2.3 cm) on top. You should not vacuum the sand, as this tends to be sucked all the way across the void, and this also disturbs the natural filtration occurs aerobic and anaerobic in the substrate of the work done by bacteria and plant roots. You can drain the water into a pail or attach a siphon with a long hose and drain outside or in a bath of gravity.
There are other products that attach to the pool, but they are more valued and wastewater. It's easier to get just a hose long and get an adapter and connect the hose to the patients to fill, but the water leak in a garden where it will do good (unless thick salt water.)
I prefer keeping the fish in during this process because I feel more tension is added to the removal of the fish and place fish in water conditions the new fish are not used. Add water slowly, and if the tap water was used to make the temperature is similar to the aquarium water already present in the aquarium, you can generally safely add hot tap water to correct this. Although the marine aquarium keeping, I brought my own water and was always colder the aquarium, but this does not present itself as a major problem as many think. If you do some math; Let's say your tank is 78 F and add 20% water again which is 68 F, which is 1/5th the volume, so 1/5th of a difference F 10 is only 2 F.
What More importantly is the addition of a de-chlorinator tap water (if using tap water) while water is being added. I prefer target = "_blank"> Start on the right, this product eliminates (and chlorine ammonia ions bound chloramines), removes heavy metals, chlorine, and very important is that it stimulates slime coat naturally in fish compared to products released an artificial block of silt in the tank that usually sinks to the bottom anyway.

In some successful aquarium keeping traditions (mainly in Germany), no vacuuming is performed. The water is simply diverted out of the aquarium and the new water was carefully added back in. For this method to succeed freshwater aquarium, you need a healthy growth of plants, good lighting, a thin layer of sand sufficient to cover the roots of plants (not taxed). Good aerobic filtration is also a duty.

A new device that makes water removal and recirculation through a filter cartridge microns is easy to clean is the Aquarium Cleaning Machine. This new device uses a protected magnet motor drive to eliminate or re-circulate the water through a filter (or both). For changes of seawater, this device is saving money and protecting the fish. You can change 20% of its water, then return to keep filtering through micron cartridge using the gravel vacuum not picking up. This saves having to use more salt for the larger water changes and keeps a healthy aquarium with less nitrate, as much of the debris is removed from your system before it can go through the nitrogen cycle (adding to the levels of nitrate).

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