I was given a 50 gal tank or so. how often do you drain the thing so you can clean out the algae and gunk? - how often are maintence spankins
My brother had and went into the war, but they gave me .. cool .. He has some awsome fish lookining I need to learn. But I hear someone say that if you can not have a decent maintenance program of water your fish have groovey bye bye kiss. How many times have you empty the thing and put the garbage and a lot of algae in the sea?
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
How Often Are Maintence Spankins I Was Given A 50 Gal Tank Or So. How Often Do You Drain The Thing So You Can Clean Out The Algae And Gunk?
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You never want to completely empty the tank. It is a biological filter work to keep the tank clean.
Here is a link to read, to understand better what is in the tank.
http://freshaquarium.about.com/cs/biolog ...
In short, the fish in a closed system. Where waste is produced, the biological filter (if you can not see), most of these wastes are trying to break.
A water change of 20-25% every week or every two weeks will also help to clean the tank.
A siphon used gravel to the waste of fish on the floor, to absorb not been broken by the (good) bacteria in the tank.
Replace water with water that is dechlorinated / or air conditioning.
Before the siphon can be used a scraper to remove algae from the glass.
Never use chemicals to the tank or cleaning. Fresh water is all you need.
Not to feed the fish. You can feed them once a day or three times a day, depends primarily on your fish. If you dre feedE twice a day, eat less. The diet of the fish what they can eat in 3 minutes or less.
To clean the tank, the filter should be cleaned at least once a month. Depending on the amount of waste that can be removed from the filter, filter pads are changed every two months. Plus, if you see that are dirty.
Water testing is also important. A good water test kit, you and your fish. This will entail increasing ammonia (Bad Fish) Nitric PH.
If you need additional help cleaning, please write to him at any time.
You should not empty the tank completely. This upsets the balance of the "Flora" in the water. You need a good filtration system (it's worth), the investment and can also empty the tank once a month or so. This will help you all the things that our icky gravel. You want to make sure that when you vacuum to remove no more than 1 / 3 of water. To invest even in a sponge or brush to buy the PET shop. This can be used to clean algae on the sides of the tank.
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