How to clean a dirty aquarium

A freshwater aquarium requires about 30 minutes to an hour of work per week, depending on the size of the tank.

What you need:
1) a clean bucket of 5 gallons, which has never use chemicals or soap inside had need of it.
2) A hose or gravel cleaner
3) A bag made of natural or synthetic sea salt

I have divided the work into two parts, the tank must be cleaned ever week on the same day and the filters can be cleaned every 2 or 3 weeks.

The very first thing you have before you do your Fish Tank cleaning, pull your tank heater if you have one. The heater must not be removed from the water, while it is hot, so make sure you leave it unplugged for at least 20 minutes before you remove it. The water helps cool the glass away on the heater when it might crack, or the glass may break completely. You should also remember to never stick your hand inside each aquarium before you ensure that the heating is turned off, but not only the power cord from the wall. A small crack in the heater could be more than enough to cause a shock, which can be fatal.

According to the heating time for you has ha cool “safely remove the heater from the tank or the heater is submersible pump, you can simply press down to the bottom of the tank.

May have now, take all the decorations placed in the tank, so you have all the little pebbles on the ground, this will allow you, the dirt, that, these decorations can cover up. Well, if you do not have a gravel cleaner you need to go, roll up your sleeves and his hands wet. You need to stir up the gravel to get the dirt that has settled between the gravel into the water, and start the removal of the water in the bucket with the hose. You do not throw you out of the water but it is to clean the filters.

If you have a clean gravel, press the plastic tube into the gravel until the bottom of the tank, then hits a siphon to begin in the bucket, every second or two, move to repeat the cleaner gravel about an inch or two, and this process until either you have 15 percent of the water tanks cleaned away you have all the gravel.

At this point you can clean the aquarium filters. The insides of the filters are used to grow bacteria that help break the nitrites and nitrates, which are in the water of fish waste and uneaten food. To ensure that we don? T kill these friendly bacteria Aquarium, we clean the filter materials and sponges in the dirty water that I also full of bacteria. Take everything out of the filter and rinse it into the bucket of dirty aquarium water, then give the sponge a few favorite photos in the bucket and reassemble the filter and put it back on the tank.

Now before you start the salt water tank must be given. All water has to replicate a certain amount of salt in it and the natural habitat of the fish must be salt in the tank as well be. About 1 cup of sea salt for every 50 gallons of water.

Now you can add water into the tank, but you must ensure the water is in within one or two degrees from the temperature of the water tank. can take a drastic change in the temperature suddenly the fish tank in a state of shock and kill them or weaken their immunity and help them a Fish Diseases. I recommend filling the bucket with hot water and check it periodically until it is the same as the tank temperature, then slowly the water in the tank, start the filter and heater.

Cleaning the filter should only be performed once or twice a month, but the water in the tank must be cleaned on the same day each week.

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