Clean sand bed and snail poop ?

[krygoon]

I tried using a powered siphon today to clean up all the snail poop on sand bed and turned my tank into a white out. In my 20 g tank I have 4 blue legs , 4 nassarius snails , 1 Mexican turbo and 1 Halloween crab along with my two clowns. They poop a lot obviously so I ordered a siphon that’s attached to a pump and it just made my tank so cloudy I about had a heart attack. Everyone is ok and it’s clearing up a good bit later that being said I don’t want to do that again to my tank my fish or myself. Is there any inverts or other organisms that can keep up with their “output” naturally so I don’t have to disturb the sand or my inhabitants nearly as much especially since I’m in a small tank with hard to reach spots under my caves and such ? Thanks for any help or suggestions yall!!

 

[Sam7]

 

[krygoon]

Awesome I’ll go ahead and give that a watch and after doing a bunch more reading, I may have been using the wrong attachment, even though the user manual told me to use the one I was using. I’m gonna try at a different way tomorrow.

 

[Sam7]

Awesome I’ll go ahead and give that a watch and after doing a bunch more reading, I may have been using the wrong attachment, even though the user manual told me to use the one I was using. I’m gonna try at a different way tomorrow.

You dont need a pump , just the vac and hose then start a siphon it takes practice but you pinch the hose to stop from sucking gravel out tank or up the gravel vac to far....that lets it fall back into tank and you keep doing that over and over until all clean. Just dont get to into it and forget that your bucket ononly hold so much dirty water. This is what you do when you do a water change becuase your removing water and detrius. So make sure you only take out dirty water that you have enough made up fresh saltwater to add back in. I only do 5 gallons on my 40 gallon tank and have 5 gallons to put back in that i do pump back in with a small pump so i dont have to lift it and make a mess. Now there are small power vaccums with a filter bag on them thats suppose to filter the sand with no water change but i dont use it because i only do it when i change water. This isnt something you would need to do every water change but i suppose you can.

 

[krygoon]

Awesome I’ll go ahead and give that a watch and after doing a bunch more reading, I may have been using the wrong attachment, even though the user manual told me to use the one I was using. I’m gonna try at a different way tomorrow.

you dont need a pump , just the vac and hose then start a siphon it takes practice but you pinch the hose to stop from sucking gravel out tank or up the gravel vac to far....that lets it fall back into tank and you keep doing that over and over until all clean

I got a Amazon gift card from work for my birthday so I picked this up to make my water changes easier instead of pulling out water in a cup lol. It came with the shown attachment so I gave it a try and fudged it all up

 

[Sam7]

I just use a vaccum like this. There are taller and shorter and smaller diameter tube depending on your tank depth.....


Amazon product ASIN B00025YUU4

 

[Sam7]

Simple works best