8 сент. 2021 г. · You don't need to scrub or rinse your gravel, and if you have a filter you have no reason to run the water through a cheese cloth. Just vacuum ...

15 мая 2024 г. · Get an undersized gravel vacuum and use that for your water changes. I use a gravel vacuum rated for a 5 gallon tank on my 20 gallon tanks.

21 нояб. 2023 г. · For the gravel, I'll use some filtered water and swirl it around in the tank with my hands, then dump that out. I'll repeat this like 2-3 times ...

14 сент. 2023 г. · you don't need to remove gravel to "clean" it. you can put a fabric lint trap on the end of hose or use a fish net cut and rubber banded.

17 янв. 2024 г. · Deep sand bed with lots of plants along with only feeding your tank every other day and watch how long you can go without a water change.

25 апр. 2012 г. · A proper fish tank cleaner is a 2 inch wide stiff plastic tube about 12 inches long. This goes in your tank. At the end of that is about 24 ...

12 мар. 2022 г. · Dig it deep in the gravel all over the bottom and siphon all that gunk out along with a water change. Do the whole bottom along with a 50% water ...

1 авг. 2022 г. · I take the stuff out for cleaning and put it in a bucket of hot water with a generous splash of peroxide. Squirt peroxide right on the worst.

6 янв. 2024 г. · If it's large gravel stones, then a sifting pan, or a sieve, placed on a surface with a hole under. You could do this in the sink, or over a ...

15 дек. 2013 г. · My tank cleaning goes like this, I usually take out my bio media, place it into my water change bucket, scrape algae off the glass, and siphon ...