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Post by Carl on Dec 16, 2018 11:13:51 GMT -5
I believe that article talks about saltwater article and freshwater you would want to dig deep. Even with salt you want to depending on how you have the substrate layered. If I end up with sand in the bucket, I just scoop it out and put it back. Yes. If draining outside, which many of my clients I watered their garden with, I still was able to not suck up too much sand using a kinking method. It simply is a matter of method and with anything, a learning curve From the Aquarium Cleaning Article: QUOTE: "For cleaning your aquarium (freshwater or saltwater) a Gravel Vacuum attached to a siphon or re-circulating filter works best. These vacuums are quite easy to use; simply push the bell of the vacuum into the gravel and quickly back out. If you are having problems with sucking gravel into the siphon hose, try kinking the hose with your other hand to slow the out flow to keep gravel from being sucked up.
Make sure and lift ornaments out of the way and vacuum in as many dead spots as possible. It is important to get as much of this organic “mulm” out of the aquarium as possible as this is what leads to higher nitrates, ph crashes (due to nitric acid production during decay), and resulting in poor KH levels."Carl
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Post by mcr on Dec 16, 2018 22:56:46 GMT -5
Thanks everyone for the help. The hose kinking does help and your right it is a learning curve and will take some practice. I didn’t get as much sand sucked up as I thought I would, but still more than I want. I have a two gal. Bucket that I drilled a hole in and attached a one inch pipe about three inches tall to the inside of the bucket. I originally used it to set on top of my five gal. Pump bucket to catch guppy fry. The fry stay in the bucket and the water overflows into the pump bucket. It worked well except with out a screen the small fry would go over the top but the screen would plug up too quickly so I gave up on the idea. Sand on the other hand should sink to the bottom and stay there. Since I have it already I’ll give it a try and see how it works. Thanks, Mark
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