A clean water aquarium needs about thirty mins to an hour of work a week dependent on the dimensions of the tank.
What you’ll need : one ) you’ll need a clean 5 gallon bucket which has never had chemicals or soap within it. Two ) A hose or gravel cleaner three ) A bag of synthetic or natural sea salt I have split the work into 2 parts the tank which must be cleaned ever week on the same day and the filters which can on occasion be cleaned each two or three weeks. The number one thing you have got to do prior to starting cleaning your aquarium is to unplug your tanks heater if you have one. The heater can’t be permitted to be removed from the water although it is hot so take care to leave it unplugged at least twenty mins before trying to remove it. You must not forget to never stick your hand within of any aquarium before ensuring the heater isn’t only off but unplugged from the wall. After the heater has ha time to cool you can safely take away the heater from the tank or it the heater is submersible you can just push it down to the base of the tank. Now take any decorations you will have placed in the tank, so all you have are the tiny gravel at the bottom, this will enable you to get any dirt that those decorations could have been covering up. Now if you don’t have a gravel cleaner you’re going to need to roll up your sleeves and get your hands wet. If you’ve got a gravel cleaner, push the plastic tube into the gravel till it hits the base of the tank, then start a siphon into the bucket, each second or two move the gravel cleaner over an in. or two and repeat this process till either you have removed fifteen p.c of the tanks water of you have cleaned all of the gravel. Now at about that point you can clean the Aquariums filters.
The guts of the filters are used to grow bacteria, that help break down the nitrites and nitrates that are in the water from fish waste and uneaten food. To be certain we don’t kill all of these Aquarium friendly bacteria, we clean the filter materials and sponges in the mucky water that I also full of the bacteria. Take everything out of the filters and wash them of in the bucket of soiled Aquarium water, then give the sponge two squeezes in the bucket and reassemble the filters, and put them back on the tank. Now before adding the water sea salt must be added to the tank. All water has some quantity of salt in it and to repeat the environment of the fish there should be salt in your tank also.
Add roughly one cup of sea salt for each fifty gallons of water.
Now you are able to add water to the tank, but you have to ensure the water is the inside a degree or 2 of the temperature of the water in the tank. An extreme change in the tanks temperature all of a sudden can throw the fish into shock and kill them or weaken their immunity and help to give them a fish illness.
I suggest filling the bucket with heated water and checking it frequently until it’s the same as the tanks temperature, then carefully add the water to the tank, start the filters and the heater. Cleaning the filters only must be done a couple of times a month, but the water in the tank must be cleaned on the same day each week.
